After several failed attempts at making perfectly cast hands, I was struck with another idea. All of my plaster hands kept breaking. I could of super glued them back together, but then it got me wondering why I was so concerned about the hands being perfect. People always strive for perfection in the day and age. Yet people will go to extreme measures to achieve perfection.
Instead of carefully attempting to repair the hands, I half heartedly tried to attach them all back together using nothing but thread. The results created deformed looking pieces of human body parts. The final outcome is a cluster of hands all connected in a mess of thread intertwined together and represents humans extreme ways of trying to achieve perfection, but instead we destroy everything.
My piece reminded me of an artist I saw at the Walsall Art Gallery named Jochem Hendricks. He too worked with the human body, instead making casts of his own head, with some of them being broken. I thought he could be a key person to research for sculpture.
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