If I post this image, then I will HAVE to write a book report.

It's relevance to me is that I returned to education, to learn how to make moulds.

Moulds and the making of casts is associated it with copying, but it equally covers the transfer of a created form into a more fixed and 'permanent' material.

All my careful 'modelling' didn't qualify me as an artist, and looking around it [modelling of form using a flexible medium] seems to be located today as a technical service for special effects and merchandise, models of things to be sold to fans or derived from genres and media - comic books, cartons, films etc, as well as props and scenery for films plays.

Both Ron Mueck and Sam Jink's background is as technicians int he special effects industry. Part of how the cast is seen now as the only legitimate source of the figurative, is that Muecks work plays with scale. Nothing this realistic can be so constructed without being presented as such huge or tiny scale to give it the space away from the cast. There are few pieces of his that work away from this play with scale and detail that I respond to, and both of those are becasue I like the pose, and don't need to have hair inserted etc.

one thing lost in only seeing these works in reproduction, is with pieces like 'Dead dad' which I only ever saw at Sensation [where is it now ?, is that in looking at it, smaller than life size, I really questioned/doubted whether it was smaller, or I had grown in size. My eyes told me, was cued by all the deatils of hair, veing, skintone, that what I was seeing was life size - but how could that be ?  The other pieces just seem pointless. So what the pregnant lady stands, someone sits in a boat, hairy man sits in a chair.

i hate Duane Handon's works. So snide, so steotyping. The use of a cast under the clothing, showing the puffiness that comes with the weight of the casting material on flesh.

Whoops half an hour to get to the lecture. Bye . . .

Now just have to write that report.