Light Source Test - Cat Lamp

My very first thought for a project for this memorial garden was to use lights—in a human, eyes shining, as eyes can be donated, and then different human sculptures to represent different organs without being gruesome. I’ve decided against using humans, and now I’m trying to decide what kind of animal to use—in the meantime I want to make a sort of light/statue prototype.

I decided on a cat for this prototype because, well, I don’t remember why… Maybe because it looks cool as a over the top night light.

This is the only example I have of it at the moment being lit up; it’s too fragile and awkward to put lights in it until it’s fired. But it looks very cool.

It looks less cool and a bit more creepy without the eyes, but I’m proud of the cat. It won’t look too nice by the end of it, probably, because I’m also going to use it to test different surface decorations down the line. I figure I have to present a ceramic statue rather than a metal one, as it would simply cost too much, so I have to have a bigger ceramic statue that mimics the kind of metal/surface I want to create, and a smaller one that I can cast that will show how it will actually look like.