34 | project update: mapping the body

Everyone had to pick a body part through a pin the tail on the donkey method and I got the part just below the knee. We had to research that body part and make something wearable.

Fun fact: here is no name for that part of the body!

Anyway, I made a mermaid tail that is heavy and has spikes in the metal band, with the cloth bit being removable.

This came about when I read a story of a person stranded at sea who morphed into a dolphin, and a separate illustration of different kinds of mermaid tails. So I thought, why not make something that can help make the transitioning process of a human to a mermaid a little bit less painful (assuming it is painful). House (the American drama series) taught me that without the brain, there is no pain. So it is possible to inflict a sharper pain to distract the brain from the original pain. Thus, the spikes. The weight of the tail is just to train the person's core muscles in preparation for the massive amount of work it has to do to swim with a tail.