Ron Mueck, hmmm interesting guy.

Oh so I have sculpted Planet, a ‘floating” giant baby painted in a dazzling shade of white. I’ve heard comparisons of it to Mueck’s Big Baby.

Let’s see, Mueck’s works command an uncanny ability to amaze with obsessive surface detail and they exposes out need to validate our humanity, even as they thwart our attempts at full disclosure.

I suppose Big Baby is making us question what defines a newborn child, its comparably small size? Or is it seen as the biggest, most important thing in a mother’s eyes?

Well, I particularly like how he answered to why he started manipulating the scale of his figures; “I never made life-sized figures because it never seemed to be interesting. We meet life-size people everyday. And it just makes you notice in a way that you wouldn’t do with something that looks normal”. Indeed my sentiments too. Why make a sculpture that is normal when you can go crazy with amazing scales and colors? The unreality of it all makes is art.

My Planet serves to remind people how unnatural it’s position is. With its awkward scale and “posture”, it you can’t help but wonder, how can this baby hold itself up? Newborns are often seen as vulnerable and weak, but this baby, this ridiculously strong baby, has the supernatural powers to hold itself up with merely one arm! How magnificent!

Now back to Mueck, the blase irony he presents is how the baby almost seems old and wrinkly, waiting for itself to die in old solitude. It’s not crying, it’s not smiling, it just looks unsatisfied and old (yes, once again). Perhaps its a dying baby... The juxtaposition presented of a new life vs a dying life is oppressing, as much as how its size is overwhelming.

And as for my Planet, despite being disturbingly large, the baby exudes a calm, serene presence, as if still floating in its mother’s womb, waiting for its time to arrive into the world. My work is definitely more idealized and surreal than Muecks. I like how both our babies challenge the normal way we see newborns. 

It seems to me that my baby is still in the mother’s womb, unborn while Mueck’s was literally just born. I think they'll form a nice series that reflects the harshness of reality? Maybe?

Oh well but he’s an interesting guy to look out for. 

loves, MQ

-{Late night postings are pretty damaging for the health as you can actually feel your soul being fed away.}/