Monday, January 23, 2012

Mag 101 In the name of Art

                                                                     From Boris Hoppek's Tokyo exhibit "Ever"

The Life Studio finally found a model who
could sustain this pose long enough
to take a number of photo's.

Then she would unfurl,
stretch and stealthily move about,
limbering up.

Afterwards she slathered herself
and her hair-in a gel substance.
Re-established her pose -exactly-
before they dowsed her in a spray
coating of Plastic.

It was thin enough to dry in 5 minutes.
It was pliable enough
to come off in one whole piece.

"The money they paid me"
She told the reporter after cleaning up
"Included a bonus for all the pulling of my hair!"

17 comments:

Yvonne Osborne said...

I hope it was a very large bonus! I thought of the model cleaning up too....almost put her in the bath but refrained.

Nice one!

Brian Miller said...

the layer of plastic is a bit creepy actually..not sure how much money that would take for me...

Sub Radar (Mike) said...

That experience would not be pleasant at all...

Tess Kincaid said...

I was wondering this very thing...how she could maintain that position...

Doctor FTSE said...

Very ingenious was to hold the pose. Well expressed.

Trellissimo said...

Hairspray with a vengeance! LOL

Crystal said...

You gotta hand it to her to be able to hold that pose for a while! :-)

Linda Bob Grifins Korbetis Hall said...

poetic and beautiful.

Cad said...

Thanks for visiting the Trellis household yesterday - there's and added giggle on that post now... LOL You might enjoy a second look?
Your Mag is brilliant, by the way. :)

Laurie Kolp said...

Very creative take on the prompt!

Claudia said...

huu..the plastic spray coating gave me shivers..very creative take on the prompt...a bit creepy though..smiles

Lydia said...

Yikes! I had not even thought about what might be holding her in place. I wonder what the EPA and the AMA would say about the dangers of that spray coating. :)

Margaret said...

My daughter is seriously studying art and she draws nude models in unique poses. I often wonder HOW they hold onto the poses but she says some of the sketches are only minutes long - but they are NOT doused in plastic spray... ha.

Helena said...

A perfect little spin on the prompt. They'd be all day pulling and tugging at my thick, headfull!!

G-Man said...

Izzy...
You have a fantastic writing mind!

Suz said...

oooo fun!

ScottF said...

wow, that's pretty freeky lol