Mao coat

I am kneeling on the floor looking at this coat, the positioning of the coat at this part of the museum and inside a white tape lined box and hanging on a hospital coat hanger looking metal hanger, makes it look rather haunting

with the female body painted inside the coat, headless... with a hole in her chest, make it looks like a carcass, on display, a body in a coat, hanging on a metal hanger in taped box with some paint spots from the random and unfinished strokes at the bottom rim of the coat, and the not completely colored in parts of the woman's leg, where it's chopped off by the end rim of the coat, creates an effect of a chopped off amputated female body with orange skin, sickly, her skin color, the blood/paint, drips, and still bleeding off. morbid... unclean... but very sterile and hospital like environment.

the coat is the canvas
it looks old and new at the same time. green long coat with burgundy brown faux fur like fleece collar. the folding marks suggests its new-ness, doesn't look like it's been worn before. but the color, a dark shady Green and grey inner shade creates an aged feeling.

i can't see much of the body but it's a voluptuous body with brighter shading on the breast. the rest of the body is darken with shadow, the breasts almost has a "bikini" tan effect, the lighter color shading almost shapes into a bra or bikini triangular space.

the charcoal looking outline for the body is rough at the neck and shoulder and the coloring of the body does not start until the lower neck area. the coloring and outlining is realistic from chest and below.

there is a mouth-like hole (lining of the hold looks like lips) right in the middle of the body's upper chest, with grey color shading around it. A wound?

the feeling of the body is unclean, due to the shading and mix of darker color used on the body. the form of the body is very feminine and beautiful, but the fragmentation(covering of the cover through the folds of the coat and the limitation of the space provided on the canvas) makes it dark and damaged to a certain extent. Again, this look is like a young female body, but heavily "stained" and "rough"(shading) yet warm (earthy tone and the idea of a coat) and muddy.

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