Thursday 30 May 2013

World Of Wax








More from the wacky 'World Of Wax'. Here, a redundant model is melted down. There's something unspeakably awful about its slow dissolution, especially as it is so realistic. I don't know who the model is, but I would guess at him being the leader of a fifties Communist country,  perhaps one who ended up being deposed and murdered, maybe beheaded and melted down. It would be chilling, if it obviously wasn't at such a high temperature, and the heads impassive expression throughout adds an extra layer of horror.    

2 comments:

  1. Ugh chilling! Looks a bit like Norman Stanley Fletcher! I suppose it could be someone near forgotten now as you say some 50s communist leader, Josef Frank maybe?

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  2. 'Man with melted face', and all his other cranial features, too. All that's left at the end is a pool of coloured wax, a clump of hair and a couple of eyeballs.

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