Sculpted October 2008. Fimo. 70mm.
Painted December 2008. Acrylics and Enamels.

This piece belongs to a group regarding fishes (or humans and goats too and some other things…).
To a more practical vision, this sculpture is essentially an anatomy study. Even non human, the body join in my mind the classical sculpture, nude and smooth body, “pictorial” posture (I mean, for example the construction of a picture). Note that the character is androgynous.

Painting this body, I would like to show a kind of “organic stone/marble” material, that places the character at the frontier between a statue and a creature made of flesh. ‘Cause of the “christian” posture I put behind him a group of golden ray. These rays recall to the light representation over some saint pictures or stained glass windows.
The yellow crown introduces the new status of the character, and is a wink at Mike Mignola’s crowns (possibly inspired by JM Basquiat work) often drawn as simple yellow objects.