Le Grande Gras Maigre
(The Big Fat Skinny)

"Inside every obese person crouches an emaciated individual who wants desperately to stay there.", Lügner quotes Dr. Cheval. Thus providing the inspiration for the piece at left. Thought it appears to be one thing of questionable gender inside another, this is actually one complete entity. Standing nearly ten feet tall normally, it could reach a height of nearly 18 feet when the croucher in the center stood up and extended its arm raising the 'umbrella' top half. This creature speaks through the mouth on the upper head. The entity inside never speaks though it occasionally will use hand or facial gestures to communicate. The left leg, actually an arm holding a cane, symbolizes the crutch of excuses for obesity. The right leg, the bottom half of a human torso, symbolizes the normal ideal average human body build. However, there is no genitalia here as well, merely a large hole which, on closer examination, seems to serve no reproductive nor waste disposal purpose. Lügners states that Dr. Pinder told him that the hole did indeed have a purpose but never told Lügner what it was.
This piece was actually sold to a wealthy Middle-Eastern businessman, rumored to be a member of an Arabian royal family.

The Poet

If this piece, as Lügner describes it, actually existed it would've been quite amazing. Another surrealist piece, it was an obese creature nearly six feet tall while seated, with an oversize head which composed and recited dark, surrealist poetry on-the-spot in Russian, Chinese, Italian or French while at the same time, accompanying pictographic 'cartoon balloons' emerged from a huge mouth on the back of it's head.

The Voyeur

The answer to the question, "What has ten eyes, one left foot and a propensity to make rambling social commentary for hours on end?" It's cultured British accent lended an air of class to this cute but disturbing piece of living sculpture. Intended to be displayed on it's own pedestal, eyes of brown, blue, gray or green watching everything, while it's mouth described and commented on everything it's eyes could see.

The Suitor

This piece of kinetic surrealist art is as humorous as it is frightening. A decidedly feminine voice emanating from what suggests a male personage and a sexually aggressive come-on created an experience not soon forgotten by anyone unfortunate enough to get too close. An animated baldheaded man's head wearing a paper mask. Functional forearms and hands attached to a wooden rod shoulder. A lively spring serves as the upper torso, the genitalia are steel balls hanging by threads along with a bone protruding from a round, fleshy belly, complete with a navel. The right leg is an intricately carved wood clawfoot table leg, the left leg is a birdlike claw clutching a short cane compensating for that leg's shortness. One can imagine the thump-bonk, thump-bonk sound of it's walk, it's head and and grabby little arms swinging wildly on top of the spring, while it rudely propositioned anyone and everyone.

 

 

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