At the end of last year i collaborated with a photographer called Penny Freeman on her Final Major Project, this was a series of campaign photos produced for Peta, against animal cruelty.

 

For this project i had to create a series of prosthetics,  a model maker created all these animal heads so that the idea was that humans and animals are not that different, and how wouldyou feel if this happened to you.

 

The first one was a human representing a tiger being skinned. so i sculpted a flat piece to wrap around his waist. 

 

The second was a rhino, Penny wanted to represent the impact of their horns being sawn off but she didnt want it to damage the head and she thought it would be more effective if it was a human body part that was removed. Her idea was the removal of a leg or arm, but we worked out in the end that fingers would be best to do in terms of editing the leg out and ease of the model and time/ budget.

 

I made a mould of ther hand and sculpted the wound on his hand, then also made gelatine fingers for the shoot.  

 

The third was a rabbit who had been experimented on, so i made easy small bondo flat pieces for her to represent boils/wounds and infections. I applied them over her arms and legs. and also made the piece with the syringe from gelatine. 

And lastly was the cow that was cow that had been standing in its own feces all day. For this i made mud, but i dont think it was that successful it was too shiny. PEnny was happy with it though.