432. Stand Up Straight

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Title: Stand up Straight (working title)
Date: Before “Dec 1988”
Subject: standing female figure
Measurements: Unknown
Materials and Techniques: Shoe last, wooden drawers, pieces of wood, metal hooks
Description: Details of a woman are affixed to three vertically-stacked wooden boxes. In the top box, small wooden pieces form her features, attached to a small wooden board. Two curling metal hooks style her hair. In the middle wooden box, two curved wooden forms hang down from the top edge, representing her breasts. A small wooden peg serves as her belly button. Two identical, curved wooden forms that could be handles or spoons are attached to both outer sides of the box, representing her arms. Two wooden shoe lasts rest side-by-side in the bottom box. Thin, tapered wooden forms emerge from these as her legs.
Signed: Unknown
Status: Unseen