1969-Bride in Bath

1969 'Bride in the Bath', 3-D assemblage with life casts, fiberglass, silk, resin and bathtub, 67" x 29" x 24".

Collage of Selected reviews.

Made during my last year at Chelsea College of Art, exhibited in 'Young and Fantastic', Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Summer, 1969. I actually had a model who let me life cast her. I draped the cast figure in silk and poured clear embedding resin over it. The image retained the look of wet cloth and I named her 'The Bride in the Bath'. People referred to this piece as 'macabre' but for me it evolved out of my earlier studies of my own body in the bath, where, of course, I couldn't see my own head. The bride is a surrealist muse of realms that lie beneath the surface, the bathtub being a little more Dada in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp's 'Urinal' and other 'objects trouve'. ts trouve'.

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