This is a sculpture, long in the development but sometimes that is the best way. It may still have some more fabric added to the top but it is largely finished - nothing more needed. 

Colour is doing its own thing, wellies are half there and half not and the poles are providing structure as well as indication of a figure continuing up. The pose might change yet depending on where the work is shown and in relation to what else is there. 

Like most artists I will find it easiest to talk about the making: what and how is the easy bit for me but why is the trickier one! So I'm going to start with what and maybe the rest will follow: 

The 'wellies' part of the sculpture is concrete, cast by pouring liquid concrete into a pair of old wellington boots. The concrete mix was a very  weak mix and the cement was half 'gone' - partially set from sitting around too long in a damp garage, which meant that the mix didn't actually set for about a month. In my usual fashion of using up all the old stuff I've collected, the concrete is filled with carving debris from other sculptures, garden gravel and floor dust. Maybe this is part of the why component: I can't abide waste so everything gets used eventually, not just because I have some ethical goal to save the planet but it is a hang up from growing up with scarcity. Although this might not make me so special it does inform what I do today.