Leizel Soriano

Belmont City College

Year 11

Mixed media sculpture

37 x 13 x 5 cm

This free-standing figure was created using a variety of sculpting materials: wire, aluminium foil, paper mâché, paverpol, fabric, air drying clay and paint. It is a combination of human and animal parts meshed together, and communicates the complexity of each human’s innately animalistic nature and how intertwined our personalities are.

It is considered an innate tendency of human psychology to use non-human entities to further understand human qualities. (Hutson, Matthew (2012). — The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane.