What happens when you get your stockings in a bunch

July 7, 2012 2:52 PM

Dutch artist Rosa Verloop's disturbing humanoid figures are made out of nylons all pinned together.
posted by hermitosis (16 comments total)

Yikes! That's kind of unnerving. Given the cut backs, BBC props department should contract her for the next season of Doctor Who.
posted by arcticseal at 3:18 PM on July 7, 2012 [4 favorites]

Holy hell! That was startling.
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 3:24 PM on July 7, 2012

Also, Hans Bellmer.
posted by cmoj at 3:38 PM on July 7, 2012

Bros made of hose
posted by hal9k at 3:50 PM on July 7, 2012 [10 favorites]

This is cool looking, but if you think props departments should contact her, you've got it backwards.

My mother used layers of pantyhose over foam rubber, painted/shaded with spray paint, to make giant faces, prosthetic torsos, and so on, for theater back in the 80s. While my mom is a creative lady, I'm pretty sure she didn't invent this technique, it's likely it was common quite a while before that.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 3:53 PM on July 7, 2012

Reminds me of dried up apple doll faces.
posted by Mister Cheese at 4:08 PM on July 7, 2012 [1 favorite]

Also Sarah Lucas
posted by snaparapans at 5:29 PM on July 7, 2012

Yup that is definitely frickin' creepy.
posted by smoke at 5:45 PM on July 7, 2012

They're kinda like fancy pickled people.
posted by hot soup girl at 5:59 PM on July 7, 2012 [1 favorite]

I have one of those big soft back craft books from the 70s with directions on making these. Even as happy Santa sculptures, they're still disturbing.
posted by dejah420 at 6:17 PM on July 7, 2012

The Bellmer Photographs that are most similar are from the series he made using his girlfriend Unica Zürn (NSFW)
posted by snaparapans at 6:24 PM on July 7, 2012 [1 favorite]

They're kinda like fancy pickled people.

Baagh, people do that as gifts? Scary.
posted by sweetkid at 6:43 PM on July 7, 2012

That is great. Disturbing, but great. Not a lot of art really hits me, but this does. I particularly like the first one linked – the one built around the mannequin – for the symbolism and subversion thereof.
posted by Scientist at 9:20 PM on July 7, 2012

I really want to see a "Faces of meth" style layout going from cabbage patch dolls to this.
posted by mcrandello at 12:51 AM on July 8, 2012 [1 favorite]

Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to you, my lad.
posted by kurumi at 9:44 AM on July 8, 2012 [2 favorites]

I think I saw figures like this in the Salem Witch Museum* when I was a kid.

* Not really a museum, just a small set of dioramas that lead into a large gift shop.
posted by Rarebit Fiend at 11:23 PM on July 12, 2012