stigmatics
“More tiny, table-top sculptures inspired by Giacometti’s strange, attenuated figures. I had half a packet of mass-produced vinyl heads. I dug out some of the wooden cutlery and pushed their handles into the vinyl heads. That done, I then mixed up a deep yoghurt pot’s worth of plaster and dripped the heads-on-sticks like coating toffee-apples.
When they were dry, I stuck the business end of the cutlery into bases made of air-drying clay, so the figures could stand up. I dipped the bottom halves of the figures in more plaster, and repeated the process at both ends until I had them coated. When they were dry, I used some stove paint to change their appearance from plaster to metal, and then went about applying various paint finishes to produce the approximation of bronzes.
The shape of the figures’ heads remind me of the seed heads of poppies, which share that flattened shape and pronounced ridge (called a stigmatic disc apparently). As these figures share the monk-like vibe of their kit-bashed forbears, I’m naming them ‘Stigmatics’.” June 2026
