[Otto]

NEW ART PROJECT: I am going to make an alginate cast of my head, do a clay press of the mold (which means filling the mold with molten oil-based clay and swirling it around, pouring out the excess so that I'm left with a clay positive of my head) modifying the clay positive so that it looks like I'm decomposing, then doing an alginate cast of the clay positive, making a foam latex mask from the decomposing head mold. The final product will be stretched over a lifesize anatomical skull with varnished marbles glued into the eyesockets and attached to an articulated dummy made from dowel rods and foam padding from Lowe's. I will dress the dummy in ratty clothes add scratch-built corpse hands and it will have a head of punched hair and a wispy mustache. I will take the dummy to all of my Halloween parties and have him it on random women and order drinks for him. After Halloween he will be propped up in a chair, staring out the living room window. My neighbors will fear me.