ARTIST STATEMENT
Bones and internal structures: do you really see them?
All the bones fit together perfectly. It is crazy mathematics!
No matter whether you are human or peacock - we have just about the same number of joints. Our internal structures are incredibly similar: the wish bone on a peacock is our collar bone.
Bones are what is left behind, it is the most preservable part of a body. Bone awareness can take you back to the time of the dinosaurs -and awaken more knowledge about who we are -this bone structure -on this planet.
ARTWORK PROCESS
The resident peacock was road-kill -with one foot missing. After scrubbing 323 individual bones, I bleach-soaked for four days. I rinsed and dipped each bone in a glue/water mixture, before drying out on a rack turning regularly so they didn’t stick. I organised the bones - threaded a thick electrical copper wire where the spinal cord would have gone through the pelvis, the backbone, neck bones and the tail. I used hot glue and superglue to reinforce the structure. I found muscular details and painted these along a life size image of the peacock with his original feathers.
