![]() Another large work was a nude woman, with large hips, a zipped embedded into her belly and a plastic eye that appeared to follow the viewer. This work was acquired for a department store in New Jersey. I also made larger-than-life size figures including a man wearing a rain coat and a slouched hat. For the head, I used a round fish bowl stuffed with comic books. ![]() ‘Boy Sitting on Step Reading Comic Books’ was one of the early plaster sculptures that became more multimedia. ![]() I stuck these toys and found objects into the wet plaster. In ‘ What Little Boys Are Made Of’, I used multiple items that my older son left in his drawers when he left for college. I sometimes embedded objects in the plaster before it dried. After discharge from WWII, I deliberately created life-size plaster sculptures by first building a support made of chicken wire, wrapping plaster gauze over the wire to make an armature, and then covering the shape with plaster. At other times, I would build up plaster on the patient’s castes to entertain them. I sometimes started sculptures from scratch while waiting for patients. I had access to plaster casting materials. My work with plaster began when I was a United States cadet nurse. The baked sculptures were eventually consumed by members of my family. I formed the dough into shapes which she then baked. When my mother made bread and rolls she would always give me a chunk of dough. My first sculptures were made from dough when I was around eight years old.
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