POOR LITTLE GUY

I've been seriously slacking and putting off doing any kind of real work for the up and coming degree show (watch as I fall in a slow circle and cry in around 3 weeks when the deadline will be pretty much upon us and I'll be in exactly the same place as I am now. Calling it...), so today I decided that, rather than lay around in my pyjamas with Law and Order SVU on repeat and a sketchbook in my lap, merely as a guise to make it feel as though I'm being productive, I'd attempt to finish making another guy out of tights and stuffing.  He's finally getting to the finshing stages, so of course awful pictures, courtesy of my Toshiba's attempt at a Photobooth-esque webcam, had to be taken:

Cuddling up to this beast is as comfortable as curling up on top of a mountain of aeroplane pillows.  See also:  a 'Snuggie' made out of pillows.  Due to these recent findings, I think that it's only fair that I get a First in my degree, as these two things can surely only help to make major changes and advances within society. 

A HAIRY STATE OF THINGS

So here's an older piece of work from the first semester of this year, before I became completely and utterly disillusioned with everything I've ever made at art school/in life....womp womp.  Based on medical samples with a bit of murder clues/keepsakes from a serial killer thrown in.  You know, all that good stuff:

Hair (fake, (un)fortunately, depending on how you feel about it) and tracing paper, all held together beautifully with bright blue blu-tak)

Standard black and white photocopies of the above, which I think I prefer in picture format.  Also, awesome picture quality, right?

I don't know if I want to re-visit these kind of things again now that I'm panic-making a bunch of stuff seeing as the end of my (FINAL EVER) year is coming up.  I can't make decisions ever.  Is fake hair as a gross out tool overdone? 

WILD BEARDS, CARROT FLOWER KINGS, SEMEN STAINING MOUNTAINTOPS: Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff Mangum

As promised, the drawings of sometime Neutral Milk Hotel genius Jeff Mangum (opinion? Pure fact).  Enjoy:

(A collaboration with Laura Carter of Elf Power)

And no form of Jeff Mangum appreciation is complete without sneakily force feeding someone the following:

'I Love How You Love Me'

'Two Headed Boy Part 2' (purely for 01:31, "and in my dreams you're alive and you're crying....")

'Oh Sister'

LIKE A CHAMP

Too awkward and weird and socially incompetent to even introduce myself somewhat normally and coherently on the internet, so instead, here's a thing:

Currently working on a little family of these guys; so far I have this dude pictured, standing at around 5ft tall, another one at around 3.5ft tall, and a babby one at just under 2ft.  All made with love and care out of old tights and pillow stuffing and (barely) held together with fishing wire.  Sexy canteen chair, courtesy of Wimbledon College of Art, not included.  Untitled and unresolved as of yet, but I'm looking at making an army of stuffed lumpy freaks out of a range of different materials, at different heights, with different limbs protruding (nice, I know).  There's a possibility that my model above might make an appearance in the degree show in just under 2 months time, although the setting is still in question: science lab, mortuary table, comfy chair, cult gathering, caged and locked away....endless possibilities to work through.  Poor little guys.


On a lighter note/big fat tangent, here's a constant inspiration: drawings by the man and legend himself, Mr Jeff Mangum, a.k.a the love of my life, the one, the only, etc etc etc.  I'm not even going to go there:

He'll get his own sickening post dedicated purely to what an awesome human being he is, don't worry.