My Multiples

My multiples project is about the Plague in Edinburgh. It mostly focuses on the multiple bodies/deaths caused by the plague.

Now my 3 ideas were all 3D sculptures.

1. Create a memorial involving the mass graves. It was an hour glass shape with the top half being the ground and the bottom being the mass bodies, faceless to emphasise the lack of identities. Originally it was going to be a child playing on top to show how these mass graves are unmarked and can be anywhere, but a lecturer pointed out that it would be difficult to know it was about the plague that way so I should incorporate the iconic plague doctor into it.

2. A 2 faced hanging head that on one side is a plague victim and the other the plague doctor mask. I wanted it to hang down from the ceiling to seem eerie and easy to see all the way round. 

3. Plaster molds of faces, hands and feet, laid on the floor like they are coming out the ground like a poorly covered mass grave. The body parts would have buboes made of modrock and the faces would be left white and have tally marks on them to emphasise the sheer number of victims of the plague. 

I have decided to go with the final idea, no.3. The buboes are to be painted so that they stand out, the tally marks are still to be added and as part of context there will also be a plague doctor mask painted black to contrast the white faces of the victims.

I toyed with the idea of adding a "quarantine" area with cones and tape and a white flag to hang over the piece as they did to show people that that place had someone suffering the plague inside. But all of that would have been too expensive all together and lack of time led to the idea being scrapped.