Projects

Nov 2022 - ongoing

Dimensions: Life-sized (Approx. 15 x 20 x 17cm)

Materials: Cement and sand

 

She is my first portrait sculpture which I first experienced using terracotta clay, plaster, sand, and finally, cement. Annabelle was not sculpted from a specific face or reference.

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I describe Annabelle as a real person because to me, I felt that through the hands of a sculptor, I am giving life to lumps of materials to form a figurative figure with a persona. 

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When my fingers and palms carefully form each facial and hair detail, washing and rinsing her, literally taking her out of her shell (plaster mould) - reminds me of caring for an actual human being.

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Her first name 'Annabelle' came from a discussion of the horror film of said name and how I was making a body-less humanoid figure but having a fear of dolls. The last two words of her name are the name of the last queen of France, 'Marie Antoinette', whose head was chopped off by guillotine during the French Revolution.