Realistic human sculptures

 Looking at this sculpture I am impressed by the amount of detail of the folds of skin, specific colouration and insignificant marks on the body - that are specific to his baby, marking him out as a unique individual.  The sheer amount of detail is arresting and confronting, conjuring up the disquieting hyper reality of a waxwork. "The play with scale is disorienting in our assumptions of normality where size is determined by distance from the viewer.  The babe is perceived as closer than it actually is.  The size of the infant is also an indicator of just how important a child is to a parent and equally, at this monstrous scale, a reminder of how much they can dominate a family.  A baby is normally considered frail and vulnerable.  Jinks reminds us that the converse is also true and an infant can also be robust and resilient beyond its size."
Work like this the on of the biggest motivators for me in terms of 3d modeling.

Very graphic sculptures, it reminds me of plastination somewhat, but that’s a whole different ballgame entirely. If you have not seen any Japanese plastination check it out, your in for a real treat

Semiotics

When thinking about semiotics i can't help but think what semiotics is and how it evolves around us and every day life, its a study of signs that we use on a daily basis to regognize objects films and human behaviour if you like, the study of signs that work in a certain way to creat meaning. The part that intrested me was the diffrence between connotation and denotation and what purpuse they have in semiotics, one is what you see and the other is what would be sugested when looking at it and what purpose it has being ther. For example

Connotation: secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of " sports car" sporty, terrofying, scray, fast, sexy, expensive, small.

Denotation: four wheels, a stering wheel and exhaust, maybe even push it a bit and call it "a means of transportaion"