Figure

 This piece was following on from what I was doing with the wax babies. Sadly once made I couldn't really figure out what to do with them so I started thinking of what other ways I could remake/remodel the human body.

 My first idea was to stick with the transparency that the wax dolls gave me. I initially liked this idea of translucency/see-through material to make the body from or an aspect if the body.

 So I started off with a whole load of cling film. Which I wrapped around different limbs to make the actual body shapes. I found that the cling film by itself was far too stiff feeling. I didn't like it as a whole. So I introduced a skin coloured material to bring it back again to the human aspect.

 Unlike before I only made rough estimates of the size of any limbs and body parts. I attached the pieces together quite crudely. I didn't try to hide the fact that it was sewn together, I wanted the viewer to note this fact. I choose to make the body look wounded and not really what you would normally associate with a body. For instance its lack of a head or left arm. Its almost inhuman but the likeness id still there in some ways as I think that any viewer would easily pick up that it is in fact a human figure.

Another thing I wanted to take advantage of is the structure-less body. So like the boneless aspect. Going again back to the babies in the womb, transparent and boneless. I used toy stuffing to stuff the cling film/fabric body I think it worked well. I choose to leave it on the floor because I thought that it went along with the sense of a wounded body best.