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Head Mickey Mouse

This stylised Mickey Mouse head appears to be covered in raised veins as if it had been "flayed". The effect was caused by cracks that appeared in Sandle’s original clay model as it dried. When he made a rubber mould of it to cast in bronze, the cracks were reversed.

This accidental result gave Sandle the idea "that a decaying cadaver of Mickey Mouse would be the right symbol for all that I considered to be rotten within western capitalism".

Photo: R.A....

Bronze
30.0 x 51.0cm
© The Artist

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