Starched muslin, light box. 65 inches x 40 inches x 20 inches.
Eleanor was working with themes of insecurity and vulnerability. She used the foetal position as her starting point and produced a series of drawings across a range of media and then small clay maquettes. To move the work forward she created a remarkably life-like, full-size plaster cast of one of her fellow students. The final stage in the creative process was to take a sheet of muslin and drape it over the statue; she then starched the fabric. When the fabric was dry it became stiff; she removed the fabric (that had assumed the shape of the body) and threw the statue away. The finished piece was displayed on a specially made light box so light shone through the thin, hollow gauze making the figure even more ethereal and ghost-like.
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