by Miki Rubin

My project is an attempt to reproduce the human body while blurring the boundaries between the real and the artificial. The sculpture/anatomical model is a life size reproduction of a human hand, leg and head with a bronze skeleton and a translucent wax that has similar feel to real flesh.  The limbs are direct casts of real human parts so in close view one is able to see fingerprints and  any other texture that would appear on human skin. The limbs are on a stainless steel table.

Bio

I will be graduating this with an honours degree in visual arts from York University in 2010. I have a special interest in the human body and life sciences and have taken many courses in Anatomy, Biology and physiology. I have been working for Nell Tenhaff as a student collaborator for the last 3 years on her collaborative projects with the computer science department at the University. I volunteer at a retirement home supervising and instructing in wood working.