hands
lack of oxygen
dementions:
height:2 inches
width:4 inches
length: 4 inches
main idea:
I found my mothers corpse with hands similar to this so the image of that has stuck with me, creating this piece is a form of visual representation of her last moments.
how was it made:
my hands were copied by alginate and then filled with plaster, then I created the blue effect by brushing on different blues and purples with watercolor paint.
artist statement:
this piece is more special and meaningful to me then most of the others, as mentioned in the inspiration/ main idea this piece is based off of my mother. the experience I mentioned that brought me to this piece was honestly traumatizing, and I feel that creating this piece helped a little with expressing myself in a healthy way.
these hands are my first atemps at useing alginate and plaster so they cam out a little crushed but I used that as symbolism of the weight of motherhood weather that be a shosen burden or something you have to live with. Based off that observation of the hands straight from the alginate I added the blues and purple that happen when you loose oxygen. then I created a stand out of clay and baked and glued it to the hands.
the most challenging thing about this piece for me I think would have to be the annoyingly uncomfortable position I had to be in while the alginate was setting. And the fact that the hands did not come out "perfect", but i found with the imperfection it gave me a good idea for my piece.