#plastercasts

A large 19th-century plaster cast of a Roman emperor overlooks a marble bust of Cosme de Medici from the same period in the gallery of Patrick and Jo Frémontier’s residence in Carcassonne, France, designed by their architect daughter Capucine de Cointet. Photo @jeanfrancoisjaussaud * @fremontier_antiquaires #patrickfremontier #jofremontier #capucinedecointet #dealerschoice #jeanfrancoisjaussaud #antiquaires #roman #torso #bust #classical #classicalrevival #plastercasts #gallery #classic #sobriety #restraint #white #melange # https://www.instagram.com/p/B1YZwNACmKz/?igshid=1t6bn72bylncf

Soma is made with "ex-body" materials like human bones, used breast implants, urine (in plaster). The selected individual elements are connected through the human body and at the same time they are temporal transgression (old archaeological remnants of humans, modern artificial implants, fresh urine). Here they are combined with a gabion mesh into a hybrid body. This second hand body is referring to a prosthetic body, a cyborg like E. A. Poe’s John A. B. C. Smith from “The Man That Was Used Up”. On the other hand it can be seen as a skeleton of a material avatar, the mineral matter and the metal structure of automated companions of the present or a bionic creature of the future.

Retooling plaster cast sections from the bird woman I sculpted last fall #obsessivedetail #sculpturedetail #plastercasts (at Winooski, Vermont) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-a1BAVFH02/?igshid=c3n7oth2msnw

My bedside tableau. I like to keep these guys nearby;within easy reach. #artist #plastercasts #justsharing

Finally done with these #plastercasts for #vulvasoap #thevulvaproject #lifecasting #vaginaart #feministart #Fabulouslyfeminist

#pompeii #plastercasts