Airborne Torso

Airborne Torso (1986) captures the body’s essence as a delicate, floating vessel. Cast from the front of a live female model using plaster gauze, the resulting form is like a fragile white eggshell with cracked edges. The interior surface holds the intimate replica of the skin, while the exterior, wound in layers of gauze, acts as a shroud, with stray strings visible like lines of a drawing. Presented in a position that suggests flight, the work transforms the torso into a floating shield and explores the body as a momentary, dual entity—a theme further emphasized by the creation of two mirroring forms as a reference to chromosome pairs.