Shame 2

by Sarah Loft

Title

Shame 2

Artist

Sarah Loft

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Photograph - Photograph

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As I walked down Broadway (New York City), returning home from an appointment, I noticed a large, partially painted mannequin had been left on the sidewalk by a store going out of business. On an impulse, I decided it was too cool to be left for the sanitation trucks and I would take it home. The problem was that it was quite heavy and I walk with a cane. So I enlisted the help of strong young bystanders who were happy to cart the thing for me for a couple of blocks to the bus stop. A number of them (and other passers by) wanted to be photographed with it, so I obliged. In addition, they helped me pose her in a number of places and I took more pictures. Then I had help getting it on the bus, a tolerant and amused bus driver, and more helpers to get it from the bus to my elevator. The mannequin is now wearing one of my dresses and a fedora and hanging out in my living room until I decide what possessed me and what to do with it. I called all the pictures my "Mannequin Project" and put them in a computer file. This is one of them.


The metal sculpture where the mannequin is propped up is "Giant Pod" by artists Pedro Villalta and Montserrat Daubon and is located at the intersection of Riverside Drive, Broadway, and Dyckman in the Inwood section of Manhattan. It's a ten foot high minimalist sculpture that mimics seedpods found in nature.

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Featured in the Mannequin Statue Doll Sculpture Gallery group, May 2017.

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April 28th, 2017

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