This is my final project. It is a triptych of bodies, where the body of each panel is intended to be made up of several people’s body parts. The center body is obviously less than conventional, and this body is much more of an abstract fusion of body parts, still formed from several “mismatched” body parts. I got the idea from those old postcard photo stands they have in tourist areas, where you can put your head on top of a cardboard cutout that shows a really buff body or a sexy swimsuit or whatever and take a photo to bring home. Nowadays the things have evolved into digital bluescreen replacement photos, putting you in some exotic location or combining two people’s features to see what their “child” will look like, but I was always fascinated by the old wooden ones at carnivals. I took a refrigerator box (which had to be brought home poorly tied to the roof of my car, I was driving 20 mph down Mo-Pac with my hazards on and it still kept sliding off), cut off one side, lightly spraypainted the front to give it a nice texture, and cut out the holes from the back. I think I like it because it also reminds me of those old children’s books, where each page would have three horizontal sections (a head, torso, and legs of an animal or some other creature) and you could mix and match the pages to make new “aliens.”