my replica

In the spring of 2005 I finished work on my replica.

My idea for this project came from wanting to dissect identities. Rather than pick apart someone else, I decided to dissect my own identity. To dissect my identity I decided I would build a replica of myself.

The replicas frame work is wood connected by threads then covered in pantyhose stuffed with sawdust. The flesh is made to off two layers of spandex and the face and hands are made from plaster life casts from my own body. Then finally I dressed the replica similar to myself.

It was interesting cloning myself as a doll, a surrogate, a dummy. Someone to take on my reproducibilities and I could trade places with them or let them step in when I was tired, an identical twin. Someone to be careless, null and void when doom was circling, someone else to take the blows is life.

I really wanted to meet myself. You know when you watch a home video of yourself or see yourself in the mirror and think.....is that me? is that what I look like? what do people think of me? I wanted to meet myself so I could understand myself more fully and begin to understand my identity.