Comments on: Live-size sleeping woman candle

By: millie fink

millie fink — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:00:00 +0000

Sigh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOEKygOuIaU

By: funchy crunchy

funchy crunchy — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:24:00 +0000

Don’t you mean LIFE size not “live size” ? Or perhaps “life sized”?

By: The Odd Luminary

The Odd Luminary — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:49:00 +0000

This would be quite the Thanksgiving Centerpiece. Might end hosting duties for years.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:08:00 +0000

Yeah… you’ve been a bad candle, haven’t you?

By: tsa

tsa — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:59:00 +0000

Dutch people are tall like that. She seems normal to me.

By: Art

Art — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:44:00 +0000

A very arresting image. Beautiful and quietly horrifying. Well Done!

By: quitterjunior

quitterjunior — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:26:00 +0000

Did you mean: Life-size?

Godspeed return receipt,
Gamma Gerber’s

By: Keith Anselm

Keith Anselm — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:02:00 +0000

I’d put it in my living room.

By: Carin Huber

Carin Huber — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:45:00 +0000

luckymojo dot com. Look in the catalogue under “ritual candles.”

By: millie fink

millie fink — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:11:00 +0000

Those purged, purely white art spaces (the White Cube) are disturbing, and that guy’s Nazi chic is disturbingly apt. The parallels in The Art World to other sorts of “colored” purgings are not purely coincidental.

I highly recommend an intriguing little book in this regard, David Batchelor’s Chromophobia.

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse – a fear of corruption or contamination through color – lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some “foreign body” – the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological – or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351621.Chromophobia

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

That reminds me of that episode of Absolutely Fabulous when they visit their friends who live in the empty-except-art, all-white house. And are a teeny bit affected.

By: Richard Hung

Richard Hung — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Brainzzz…

By: millie fink

millie fink — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:57:00 +0000

Easy–by paying the rent. By paying our share.

;-)

By: jeligula

jeligula — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:53:00 +0000

He would be what we used to refer to in the 80′s as a PAF (Pathetic Art Fuck). To his credit, he omitted the black beret and French cigarettes. He has his trousers tucked into his knee-high boots. At least I am assuming so.

By: Soliloquy

Soliloquy — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:51:00 +0000

Sort of Pompeii-esque.

And who is this guy? And why do I get the feeling he’s not wearing any pants? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-65yd-7YQeI0/TekECk8bp4I/AAAAAAAABeY/OUvMSpq0R4w/s1600/AMB11_EXPO_1192.JPG

By: jeligula

jeligula — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:50:00 +0000

How can we sleep when our beds are burning?

By: srose278

srose278 — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:46:00 +0000

The body position and draperies sort of remind me of the sculpture of St. Cecilia (Trastevere). Not sure I get the wicks in this one, though. Gorgeous work, though.

By: FernandoMontelbon

FernandoMontelbon — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:25:00 +0000

I’m melting.. I’m melting….. hmmm.. maybe she’s *puts on shades* the wicked wick of the west?

By: FernandoMontelbon

FernandoMontelbon — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:21:00 +0000

Finally A lady who will melt in Fernando’s muscular latin arms.

Well.. that’s enough god awful puns for one night.

By: HenryPootel

HenryPootel — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:19:00 +0000

No Wizard of Oz jokes? Come on people!

By: zombiebob

zombiebob — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:18:00 +0000

mmm boars head chocolate

By: Queensowntalia

Queensowntalia — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:51:00 +0000

It looks like she’s been shot in the head. Which I don’t mean as a criticism, I love the sculpture-candle, but that explains the creepy factor.

By: folkclarinet

folkclarinet — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:26:00 +0000

I like the typo: “Sculptded” as in Sculpted-dead… ;)

By: Neal Ross Attinson

Neal Ross Attinson — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:23:00 +0000

This makes me empathy glands itch.

By: newUsername

newUsername — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:14:00 +0000

There’s another artist (Urs Fischer comes to mind, but I don’t really know…) that has done something similar… she’s standing though…

By: oldtaku

oldtaku — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:13:00 +0000

People, ALWAYS remember to extinguish your woman before sleeping. This is how house fires start.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:12:00 +0000

I wonder how it was sculpted? a giant block of wax? A mold?

Probably a flexible mold. Most bronze sculptures are made using the “lost wax” method, which involves making a wax cast of an original sculpture which in turn is made from clay or another easily sculpted medium. My guess is they just went through the normal process of making a bronze sculpture but left off the last few steps. I made a pretty cool life-sized boar’s head centerpiece out of chocolate that way once.

By: technogeekagain

technogeekagain — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:09:00 +0000

I guess this strikes me as another case where someone did a nice wax sculpture and then felt they had to justify the material by adding wicks… The placement of said wicks is at least partly successful, but it seems to me that if you’re going to have a human candle the flames should be at the chakras or otherwise express something beyond “this is the general sweep of the body.”

(I presume anatomically explicit candles exist. I’m afraid to find out.)

By: Spitty Sumo

Spitty Sumo — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:58:00 +0000

oh mah gah — it’s ZELDA from pet sematary!

By: millie fink

millie fink — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:55:00 +0000

“Live size” has a nice ring to it, but I’d change the title to “actual size” (though she seems much bigger to me).