Pets

Honestly, I do not recall ever seeing a child so happy to be on a leash (like the one in the photo).

And so, from this, I draw my inspiration.

I plan to mold the body double after the human neck. From Madonna with the Long Neck of the 1500s to high fashion models of today, people have considered the neck as something that, potentially, signifies beauty. However, to me, the neck first elicits images of fragility, the guillotine, and suffocation (Yes, I do realize that the child leash does not actually go around a child's neck, but that is simply what comes to mind). I hope to incorporate both beautiful and ugly connotations in this sculpture.

In order to distinguish the neck as such a body part, as opposed to an abstract cylinder, I also plan on creating the lower section of the head as well as part of the shoulders.As for materials, I will attempt to use homemade papier mache (i.e.: flour and water, newspaper, maybe wire?) as the main medium, since those are the few, simple items that I already have available in my humble dorm. If that fails, then a dash to Michael's will surely remedy that. I would then spray paint it orange (partly because it is the only color I have at the moment and partly because it reminds me of fake tans). I also plan to use a ribbon as a "leash," with which I would drag around the body double (movement!). Ideally, I would also place something heavy, like a book, around the shoulders area of my sculpture, so that there would be more resistance while dragging. A cardboard base would make it easier for the sculpture to slide around the ground.

To summarize, a simple collection of google'd images.