After seeing Wan Jin Gim’s realistic drawings of body parts, I was inspired to create my own drawing using his technique and style.
In Wan’s art he focuses on the human body and the sources connected to it. Some drawings are surreal and ambiguous, yet others simply depict the human form.
His style of creating realistic body parts using pencil made me want to create my own based on impaired body parts.
So why did I create this piece and how does it relate to malfunction?
This study visually depicts how our malfunctions are connected and that one malfunction can be the catalyst for more malfunction. I suppose you would need to know what the malfunctions are in this foot, to understand how one malfunction can cause more malfunctions. In short, as a result of an inherited hip and foot disorder, the bunion formed, which caused the second toe to lift up out of the way, resulting in a hammer toe. This then causes callous skin on the area that is subject to friction.
I just drew the affected area and not the whole foot because I was trying to show how malfunctions cause us to take a half glass full approach. The rest of the foot is still functioning properly but we choose to let the malfunction define us and cast the whole foot as ugly and defective.
Another way I could draw this, is to draw everything but the malfunctioning part or the thing that is causing the malfunction.
Viktoria Collins UAL FMP 