Go F*ck Yourself

Plaster Sculpture, 2023

This piece was created for an assignment where I had to create a mold and make replications of an object. When receiving this assignment, originally I wanted to create a mold of my complete hand. As I went on to work on the piece, complications started to begin and I quickly realized that creating a complete mold of my whole hand would not be possible with this particular assignment. Instead of starting from the beginning, I decided to work with what I had and kept going from there. I decided to recast my hand but just my middle finger and instead of power in object I chose to do power in numbers. I created over 50 castings of my finger using plaster and created “an army” of middle fingers.

I positioned them in a way where they were facing each other like they are on opposite sides of war and put all the broken pieces from the first attempts in the center as “causalities”. I painted the fingertips of the pieces with black paint to give them more of a persona and relate it a little back to my personality since I wear black nail polish frequently. Also using a base of the hand that originally broke I decided to place in the back as a leader role for the war. As this piece was being worked on, problems occurred and changed had to be made but I am satisfied with the end result.