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Merrick Project.
Joseph Merrick a topologically challenged Londoner (5 August 1862 -> 11 April 1890)
This is Joseph Merrick who lived in London around 1880.
Merrick without clothes.
My mask.
Right arm + my right arm.
early stage of prosthetic suit (back) which is worn beneath the clothes.
front of prosthetic suit in an early phase.
Merrick experimenting with a membrane.
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Project notes:
Plan:
- Original plan was to visit London as Merrick, to see the stone from Solomons temple at St. Paul's.
- Also to stage a sideshow, where the general public is cofronted with Merrick reading and studying.
- Video-film-scene with Merrick constructing some objects.
Themes:
- Merrick as a living fractal.
- The face and mask related to the sculptural principles of object and cast.
- (Church) models or miniatures and how we relate to them.
- The architecture of Churches as symbols of the Body of Christ.
- The principles of facial recognition and the impossibility of remembering
Merrick's face in detail.
- The dominance of geometric tools in physics
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