Description

2004 - plaster of Paris

This is a 60cm (23.6" ) tall sculpture I made modelling some clay, then having (lots of) plaster moulds of it, and casting it with plaster (yeah, same stuff for moulds and statue... and rigid. It's been a real mess to get it done, now I would look for other materials).

I called her Dolcemuta, which you can translate "Sweetmute" or something like that. Don't know where this name came from. It simply happened that when I was making her, she started being Dolcemuta in my mind.
There isn't a precise origin for this piece. I just took some clay and started modelling her out of my mind.

Originally, she had to be a sort of albino, standing in the middle between being a sculpture and being a very pale creature. Then I felt that she was a statue *becoming* a creature.
I painted her all white, but the mouth and her eyes.
The mouth is very pale, but someway realistic.
The eyes should have been normal albino's eyes, but then I just put some red on their whole surface, and looking at her, well, I realized that those were her eyes. All red, with some smudges on the edge.

In order to get all more effective, I pur some glossy varnish on her teeth and eyes.