Feet of plaster

For this project I decided to make a double of my own right foot. I think the foot is a really interesting part of the human body. People do not really think about feet all that much unless they sprain their ankle or break some part of it. By creating a body-double of it I wanted to emphasize its function in some way or another. What I finally decided to emphasize was the stability and balance we have when we stand up, as if our feet were sticked to the ground. The idea came from the cleats that I saw at a soccer game. I was interested in how they adhere to the grass not to slip when running and I decided to try and see how I could insert it in the human body. A sort of fusion between the feet and the shoe.

I will use play doh to make a mold out of my own foot that I will bake in the oven to make it hard. The actual foot will be made out of plaster and painted with foundation to make it look real. I decided to use plaster because it was the most efficient material but also because of the expression "feet of clay". While that expression means instability, fragility and flaws I found ironic to use plaster as an antithesis of the expression, meaning exaclty the opposite,

which works with the suction cups I want to add at the bottom of the foot to reall stick it in the ground. I decided to create this part of the human body because when we were talking about molds in class I though it would be interesting to try to mold toes and I extended to the whole foot from there.

Materials:

- play doh

- plaster

- suction cups (plastic). Although I do not know where I could get those yet.

- foundation

- fake nails

- scissors

- drill

-Elena.