Ron Muek Sculpture

[3babes4me]

Absolutely beautiful! It's the 3rd photo down.
http://ustidesigner.over-blog.com/categorie-2036.html

[attachedmamaof3]

Wow! I almost didn't see it...that really is unlike any sculpture I've ever seen before!!

[Fruitful4Him]

My opinion is split.. on one hand..it IS beautiful..mother and child, etc.. on the other side.. she is laying down and looks uncomfortable from my viewpoint..perhaps if I saw the front view it would alter that perception though?

[3babes4me]

http://pourquoi.midiblogs.com/album/...k/baby3.3.html

[3babes4me]

http://www.espacioluke.com/2006/Mayo2006/ines.html

[darsmama]

I thank you for sharing, it is really neat all of the detail in it...but I may be alone if I say I find it kind of creepy for some reason...Dunno why, its just me.

[Mamma Mia]

It's her dead eyes that make it kind of creepy. It's normal for mamas to feel slightly disconnected, so I don't think it's all that inaccurate, but the dead eyes are a little *too* disconnected if you ask me.

[darsmama]

yeah Mamma Mia, I think that is it. Like...Nothing in her eyes. No confusion, or wonder, or relief or...nothing. just..very dead..
I love the detail around her tummy where the baby is laying. The little fat wrinkles and so on.

[mesa]

The baby looks so cold and lonely. Mom isn't showing any affection at all, she is showing no emotion at all. She isn't even trying to touch her baby. It's sad, to me.

The quality is amazing, though. So lifelike, especially her feet. wow.

[courtenay_e]

Yes, the detail is beautiful, but I agree about her eyes...it almost looks like she woke up from a dream and her CAT is on her stomach...like, "Huh...how'd you get there? And what ARE you, anyway?"

[Jade2561]

It looks like an unnatural position and would be sweet if she didn't look like a cadaver.

[Mamma Mia]

Originally Posted by mesa

The baby looks so cold and lonely. Mom isn't showing any affection at all, she is showing no emotion at all. She isn't even trying to touch her baby. It's sad, to me.

The quality is amazing, though. So lifelike, especially her feet. wow.

Although it is very common for mothers to birth in a "zone" and not be immediately interested in their babies right after birth. It's those of us who have lots of people there, or the expectation to be immediately interested in our babies that are. One aspect of natural, unmessed with birth can often be a mom who takes a few moments to pick up her baby after it is born. And usually she begins touching the baby slowly, with the tips of her fingers, then more and more of her hand. In our culture we immediately place the baby on her tummy for her and don't give her that chance. I know that some moms give birth and are not ready to have a baby placed on their stomach. An aspect of bonding is mom doing that.

But of course, what's sad here is that she wouldn't be able to do that lying completely prone.

[channelofpeace]

i do really like this one though

[mesa]

Originally Posted by Mamma Mia

Although it is very common for mothers to birth in a "zone" and not be immediately interested in their babies right after birth. It's those of us who have lots of people there, or the expectation to be immediately interested in our babies that are. One aspect of natural, unmessed with birth can often be a mom who takes a few moments to pick up her baby after it is born. And usually she begins touching the baby slowly, with the tips of her fingers, then more and more of her hand. In our culture we immediately place the baby on her tummy for her and don't give her that chance. I know that some moms give birth and are not ready to have a baby placed on their stomach. An aspect of bonding is mom doing that.

But of course, what's sad here is that she wouldn't be able to do that lying completely prone.

I understand that...I guess it's just that the artist chose to represent *that* particular point in time, and now, it's frozen forever....I mean, real life, she would probably have this reaction for a couple of seconds, or maybe a minute or two, and then start exploring her baby. It just disturbs me that she's just laying there, with that strange look on her face, and her arms flat at her sides. Maybe it's just my early pregnancy hormones...I want to just scoop up that baby and squeeze him

[3babes4me]

I guess to me, it's that moment in time where you're still in "shock" while looking at the tiny human being your body made. The moment when all you can think is "wow" when your eyes meet your baby's eyes. It's a fact that the majority of women give birth in that position in hospitals. Every birth is beautiful, IMO. Every.Single.Birth. At least she's not wearing a hospital gown.

[WinterBaby]

Call me crazy, but I don't think the artist was going for warmth exactly with any of the pieces I've seen here. I get a much darker sense from them, like isolation. Of course, that's what I find compelling about them too

[pamamidwife]

i love his pieces, i agree with winterbaby. they're almost like you're walking in on a moment....they're not staged or deliriously happy pieces. i really like them, especially his newborn baby one, seen here with other pieces.

[Mamma Mia]

Originally Posted by mesa

I understand that...I guess it's just that the artist chose to represent *that* particular point in time, and now, it's frozen forever....I mean, real life, she would probably have this reaction for a couple of seconds, or maybe a minute or two, and then start exploring her baby. It just disturbs me that she's just laying there, with that strange look on her face, and her arms flat at her sides. Maybe it's just my early pregnancy hormones...I want to just scoop up that baby and squeeze him

Something that I love in art is that it's not always the most obvious moments frozen in time that are the most striking.

[boobjuice]

Originally Posted by Fruitful4Him

My opinion is split.. on one hand..it IS beautiful..mother and child, etc.. on the other side.. she is laying down and looks uncomfortable from my viewpoint..perhaps if I saw the front view it would alter that perception though?

his artwork is amazing! the laying down position disappoints me. i was watching star wars 3 the other day and Pad Mai was giving birth lying down.

i would like to think in the future when we watch these old reruns we will laugh at ourselves for birthing lying down. like in the movie alien that was made in the 70's which depicted people on a space ship in the future and everyone was smoking cigarettes could you imagine our astornauts on the challenger in space smoking cigarettes

[shellbell]

Yah... this artist doesn't seem to be catching the "warm, fuzzy" aspects of life, I agree. And, that's okay. I think his work is very interesting. That's not quite how I would want to portray birth... but he has a different agenda than I do in life. Very interesting!