i think i might be having split personality these few days
my writing style have been changing slightly havent they?
oh well




Buck & Allanah, 2009
Orbital sanded and flap wheeled lacquered bronze
65 3/4 x 41 5/16 x 17 11/16 in. (167 x 105 x 45 cm)


The human body has always intrigued me.
The perfection, and yet the flaws.
People are obsessed with the human body nowadays, desperately to look perfect and flawless.
Plastic surgery. Its so common that I feel like I'm living in a world of Barbies and Kens.
from hormone therapy to tattoos, from piercings to skin bleaching, from implants to transplants
PPFTTT! so common. no kick.

so i came up with "Buck & Allanah", two bronze sculptures of a man and woman with their sexual organs exchanged,  or perhaps bringing two people of opposite genders who both underwent sexual transformation together. They look like Adam and Eve at first sight, don't they?
If you ask me, do i classify them under "male", "female", or "none of the above", seriously  i do not know. Now we even consider the possibility of a third gender, the "in-between"? Are they considered human beings in the first place?I guess the two bodies i created exist beyond the normal boundaries of classification. Or perhaps you can see it as two people who underwent plastic surgery, changing their features, till they look like the opposite gender. And yet, their body remains untouched.

Alright, why Buck and Allanah? All I did was to search "plastic surgery" and "transformation" and poooff! I discovered Buck Angel! A she turning into a he, and he (she?) introduced me to his friend, Allanah Starr,  a man who transformed his body into the idealization of femininity, but preserved his male genitals. Both were elated to pose for my sculptures. When Starr first saw this sculpture of mine, she exclaimed  "Amaaaaazing. Oh my God, I didn't realise they'd be in bronze. Incredible." I'm glad she liked it.

Starr told me that she's had 55 operations, including six on her nose and six on her breasts, and she won't hesitate to go for more. And when i asked Starr what her mother thought about her sex change, she replied that her mother was really open-minded and just wanted her to do she wanted to. Ain't it cool that have a mother like that?

So does cosmetic surgery change who a person is? Does it affect his/her identity?
Does the outer appearance of one matter or contributes to who one is?

gah. I don't know what I'm talking bout

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MQ.