==== Merrick Project. ==== {{merrick-small.jpg|merrick-small.jpg}} {{m2.jpg|m2.jpg}} {{m3.jpg|m3.jpg}} ---- === Joseph Merrick a topologically challenged Londoner (5 August 1862 -> 11 April 1890) === {{img_11453690611787.jpg|img_11453690611787.jpg}} {{img_11453689881787.jpg|img_11453689881787.jpg}} ----- === Prosthetic Costume === My mask. {{img_11453681441787.jpg|img_11453681441787.jpg}} Right arm + my right arm. {{img_11453682221787.jpg|img_11453682221787.jpg}} early stage of prosthetic suit (back) which is worn beneath the clothes. {{img_11453689071787.jpg|img_11453689071787.jpg}} front of prosthetic suit in an early phase. {{img_11453689521787.jpg|img_11453689521787.jpg}} === Merrick experimenting with a membrane. ===

==== Project notes: ==== Plan: * Original plan was to visit London as Merrick, to see the stone from Solomons temple at St. Paul's. * Also to stage a sideshow, where the general public is cofronted with Merrick reading and studying. * Video-film-scene with Merrick constructing some objects. Themes: * Merrick as a living fractal. * The face and mask related to the sculptural principles of object and cast. * (Church) models or miniatures and how we relate to them. * The architecture of Churches as symbols of the Body of Christ. * The principles of facial recognition and the impossibility of remembering Merrick's face in detail. * The dominance of geometric tools in physics