Monday 1 September 2008

She looms large

She looms large, tilting herself forward. The angle slants the room towards the windows with blue metal frames.

Her head is abnormally big, even for a body her size: she stretches about three meters into the air. The limbs are uneven, monumentally wrong-looking, constructed rather than modelled. She wears a dress, but has no feet.

One arm reaches forward, grabbing the air in front of her. The other arm lies flat against the space between chest and stomach. Rectangular patches of white lie flat over the top of the head, the arms, around the waist. The rest of her body is reddish brown, unevenly coloured, with a rough-looking surface. Various shades of red blend into the sand, cement, and filler mixture that covers most of her exterior.
Her dress opens onto a light wooden frame, drilled and screwed together; displaying large holes in the wood where the screw has disappeared into the material. The wood is planed, smooth, with splashes of burgundy lumps.

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