Video: Nylon sculptures by Lisa Lichtenfels
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Women all over the world are grateful to the inventor of nylon, Wallace Carothers, for a kind of revolution in fashion caused by the advent of stockings, and later tights. The artist Lisa Lichtenfels has found a more unusual use for this material: she uses nylon to create highly realistic sculptures.
Why nylon? Firstly, this material is very elastic. This makes it possible, on the one hand, to cover the sculpture with it, as if with real leather, on the other, to create very realistic wrinkles and facial features. Secondly, nylon is translucent and by wrapping the sculpture in several layers of this material in different tones, you can achieve a delicate and natural skin tone.
The technique for making sculptures is as follows. First, a wire skeleton is created, which is covered with felt. Then the muscles of batting are "built up" onto the skeleton, and the artist emphasizes that they have the correct anatomical shape. In this way, a "body" is obtained, which is then covered with several layers of nylon, imitating the skin.
Lisa Lichtenfels says that each new sculpture of her turns out better than the previous ones, because she acquires new knowledge and implements it in practice. But this does not mean that she loves more perfect and "correct" works: all of them, successful and not so, are equally dear to the artist's heart.
Lisa was working at a Disney studio as an aspiring animator when she came up with the idea of making nylon skin sculptures for puppet cartoons. Fascinated by this occupation, the artist left her work in the studio for a while, hoping to return to animation after a year or two. However, 25 years have passed since then, and Lisa still continues to work on the creation of nylon sculptures, and at the same time admits that only recently she began to realize all the possibilities of this material.
The artist lives in Springfield (Massachusetts, USA). She creates both individual sculptures of various sizes and entire installations with many characters. More detailed information about Lisa and her work is on the website.
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