Meera the secret-stealing toilet is a 3Dimensional Sculptural representation of the protagonist of my Children's Illustrated Storybook. The first few pages of this book can be viewed in the previous project. Meera, squats in the bathroom of a three year old named Aspirin, living with her hipster parents in Bushwick
When I was in the process of coming up with Meera's character, I was initially sketching her as a toilet with a face and a mouth. But then I got really interested in how her inner machinery works to be able to store a secret.
Finally, this is how she appeared on the first page of my book.
Meera appears in my Children's Storybook, ' I Know What You Did', as a toilet that steals secret memories from the body fluids that are flushed down her. On Page number four, you learn about the mechanism inside her that enables her to do so.
I first worked small and prototyped her mouth in order to understand its structure better and get a feel of the medium. I tried making mouths out of Sculpey, Monster Clay and Magic Sculpt, in order to learn about the materials and figure out the materials I wanted to use for different parts of my sculpture.
The final sculpture consisted of cardboard, a plastic bowl severed in half, acrylic tubing, paper mache, magic sculpt, sculpey, resin, tape, wood, yarn, fabric rags, acrylic paint, staining ink, micron pens, metal, foil, and tiny potion bottles.
