Merman tribute to Mozart. His head is made of clay, his body armature is wire, many coats of antique paper and the final tapestry on his body is entirely paper, as a kind of collage, painting & mosaic using my extensive paper archive which dates back to 1723. The articulations on his mertail are a mythilogical landscape, the land of promise. I gave him red accents on his left side, from a 19th century book hand inked in the florentine style, and blue with gold veins from an equally rare book from 1889 and whose blues reminded me of lapis lazuli, the great blue of the ages. The blue and red represent the blood, internal as blue and oxygenated as red. So the pleasure of music is both within and without, like water.
I have given him two sets of hair, the white one is a strip of siberian sheepskin, the second is from a dress of fringes that has become fabulous hair, I’m sure the dress forgives me for cutting it up. :)
Merman tribute to Mozart. His head is made of clay, his body armature is wire, many coats of antique paper and the final tapestry on his body is entirely paper, as a kind of collage, painting & mosaic using my extensive paper archive which dates back to 1723. The articulations on his mertail are a mythilogical landscape, the land of promise. I gave him red accents on his left side, from a 19th century book hand inked in the florentine style, and blue with gold veins from an equally rare book from 1889 and whose blues reminded me of lapis lazuli, the great blue of the ages. The blue and red represent the blood, internal as blue and oxygenated as red. So the pleasure of music is both within and without, like water.
I have given him two sets of hair, the white one is a strip of siberian sheepskin, the second is from a dress of fringes that has become fabulous hair, I’m sure the dress forgives me for cutting it up. :)