NEW KINDS OF MEASUREMENTS OF THE BODY PART 1

The Brief

1 Week

Create a sculptural document/chronicle/account/record of new kinds of measurements of your body

Eblogger wont let me upload the images for this project either so I made a slideshow of the process of this project.

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I did a few sketches but nothing worked and then out of the blue I thought about how to measure skin and I randomly thought of rolled sheets of pastry. I immediately hit the baking section of Tesco and baked sheets of pastry. From there I wanted to see how they would look like if they were not baked and how I could measure my skin with them. I researched skin weight is 15% of the body’s weight so I rolled out 25 sheets of un-baked pastry & lay them on the studio floor. Each layer weighing 1 Pound, 25 Pounds is my body’s weight in skin. They remained on the floor and over the next two weeks to follow they constantly changed. They dried, cracked and started growing mould. I did not expect such great results from them. I looked at the works of Carl Andre for this project.