I currently work in a sculpture studio for a company that makes mannequins. In a lot of ways it is the opposite to what I have been doing in my own work. I spend a lot of my time removing the imperfections, the finger prints, the scars; erasing any signs of the history or personality of the model in order to create a figurative form that is acceptable for human consumption. But during this process there are moments of abjection that amuse me. The inevitable broken fingers the filling in of dimples, I wanted to freeze these moments and make them beautiful, again returning to the notion of there being beauty in the imperfections.
