There's a parade in Tucson called All Souls Procession. It's based on
Mexican Day of the Dead traditions, with a lot of people walking around after
dark with skull make-up on their faces. It was so crowded last year that
I left before the parade started. Every time I would find a place where I
wasn't packed into a crowd, people would start filling in in front of me and I
would keep moving back until I wouldn't have been able to see the parade
anyway.
I was thinking that it would be more
enjoyable to be in the parade and I decided to work on making a grotesque clay
baby that could be pushed in a carriage. That may or may not happen, but
this is the first attempt at a baby. It has holes in the head and the
body and I was planning on putting LED lights on the inside so it would radiate
eerie light.
A homunculus is an constructed human effigy
brought to life artificially. Homunculus also refers to the miniature
human beings that were once believed to live inside human sex cells in a long
obsolete theory of human conception.