Another imagined body is inferred in sleeplessness 1997 by Colin Duncan.

Here is a bed. But no body can lie on it, and no sleep will come. The bed resists the heavy body of rest, pristine and brittle, made with paper sheets complete with hospital corners, reminiscent of illness and the clinic. The shape, size and placement - so low to the ground- resembles a slab of a grave. The material thinness and fragility remind us that the corporeal existence of the body is temporary - the sleep implied here might be permanent. Our desire for sleep, sensuality and dreams is not realised, but our consciousness of death and aloneness is alerted.

© Jane Trengove, Body Suits, Catalogue, 1997

Worse Idea © Colin Duncan 2004
Wood, Two Pack Paint

Bad Idea © Colin Duncan 2004
Polyester, Two Pack Paint

Polyforms (production image)
Polystyrene / Dimensions Variable.

Mextex © Colin Duncan 1999
Polystyrene / Dimensions Variable ( Photo © John Gollings 1999 )

Polyforms:
These polystyrene sculptures began as two-dimensional shapes that by the way of process becamethree dimensional forms, like extrusions of the initial drawings.

Polystyrene Marquets © Colin Duncan 1999
Dimensions Variable.

Lolly Pop Sign © Colin Duncan 2002
Dimensions Variable.

Chromosomes © Colin Duncan 1997
Wax and Glaze: / Dimensions Variable.

Fictional Manhole Cover © Colin Duncan 1996
Road paint / Diameter 720mm.