Word: plasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon is essentially grey, no color," Astronaut Lovell reported. "Looks like plaster of paris, or sort of a greyish deep sand. We can see quite a bit of detail. The Sea of Fertility doesn't stand out as well here as it does on earth. There's not as much contrast between that and the surrounding craters. The craters are all rounded off. The round ones look like they've been hit by meteorites or projectiles of some sort. Langrenus is quite a huge crater. It's got a central cone to it. The walls...
Today, nobody loses any hair under Segal's hands. In his perfected technique, hairdos are swathed in Saran Wrap before the plaster cloths are applied. In the case of nudes, Vaseline is used wherever the plaster might pull on body hair. But Segal can never cast the whole figure in one piece-a complete cast would cut off the body's pores from the outer air and might prove as lethal to the model as gold paint was to the hapless girl in Goldfinger...
...hand or the flick of a wrist, but rather the whole attitude of the body. Says he: "You have to know the gesture you want, and then there's always the question of whether the human being can hold that gesture for the 20 minutes it takes the plaster to dry." The result is that artificial postures disappear, and his models slump into poses that are brutally natural. "People have attitudes locked up in their bodies, and you have to catch them...
Dealer in Mystery. If the results seem inexplicable to most viewers. Segal knows what he is doing. "I deal primarily in mystery, and in the presentation of mystery," he says. "If I cast someone in plaster, it is the mystery of a human being that is presented. If I put this next to a real object, it also raises a question about the nature of the real object...
Whether they recognize themselves as archetypes or not, anyone who comes near Segal is apt to find himself wrapped in plaster. The despondent male of Motel is, beneath the plaster, his fellow artist and friend Lucas Samaras. The withdrawn girl holding a kitten is his daughter Rena. He even uses himself as a model. For a man with his technique, this is hard to do-but he achieves it by putting his wife to work under his detailed direction...