the hunter

2012 - steel wire, found objects

She was inspired by a power figure/nkisi nkondi that I saw in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, so of course there had to be nails. It was not fun to put them in. Breaking a spell is often painful.

She's the only one with legs. Unlike dance in the body you have, she is screwed to her table and can't go anywhere without it.

I had to buy a child-size mannequin to make her. It came with a creepy little styrofoam mask to protect its creepy little face: