What's
Body-Art ?
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| Body-Art
is making art with real bodys. Origined from the idea to cast a real
body
in detail, I developed a method to make moulds from living persons and
cast art-objects from them.
Besides
the Body-Lamp there
are a lot of different ways to make a bodycast an art-object. Sometimes
more useful items (like a tailors-dummy of the own body) or more
artistic
(a garden statue).
A successful
test is this Body-Lamp,
a wall mounted lamp of a woman's torso. There are a lot of other uses
possible.
Creativety knows no limits. Ask me if you want a tailors dummy of
yourself
or a special present for your boy- or girlfriend. I will design an
object
especially for you and give you an estimate.
It is possible
to cast parts of the body or the whole body, like you want it.
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Made from colored resin
and
lid from the backside.
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The
Fabrication
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make an object like this you need to make a mould of a living person,
without
hurting the person. Not an easy task and it asks for total physical
appearence
and strength of the model, because depending on the size of the mould
the
procedure may takeover an hour.
To create
the mould a nontoxic material is used. It is applied in a thin layer
and
reinforced by plaster, to keep the shape and make the mould stable. The
plaster does not have contact to the skin in large areas, like when
making
facial moulds with plaster-bandages from the pharmacy. Because
plaster
is not good for the skin and does not give that lot of detail like it
is
wanted here, it is not used as a mouldmaking material. You never should
try to use it!
The
material
used for Body-Art
is natural, skinfriendly and also used in cosmetics.
Depending
on the final product wanted, the mould then will be filled with a
casting
material. To create a Body-Lamp you
need
for example a thin layer of coloured epoxy resin.
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Resin cast spray
painted in
marble and glitter effect.
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| Each
cast is
an original because the mould can only be used once!
The reproduction
finally shows that the work has paid. Every little pore of the skin is
visible in detail.
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Resin cast metal finished
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The
further treatment
of the cast depends on what result is wanted. For the Body-Lamp
the epoxy-piece will be cut to the final shape and polished or painted.
The exact
design of the Body-Lamp
is as individual as the body it was casted from and depends on the
customers
request.
There are
also casts possible in other materials, like plaster, concrete, wax or
foam. Depending on your ideas an individual object will be made, which
is unique in shape and look.
Are you curious
now? Then call me!
I
will give
you an individual estimate.
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Body part casted in red resin,
with lamp.
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