Waiting Elizabeth

This is somewhat like a scarecrow, but is made entirely out of plastic with the lifelike similarity of a small girl about 7 years old. She wears an immaculate prim and proper 20th century style outfit with lace embroidery, shiny ruby slippers, pigtails and has a look on her face of pensive sadness - wide eyed - as if on the verge of tears.

Place her securely in the middle of nowhere, like in a small grove of a forest, a field, or the back alley of an unused industrial area, so that she looks as if she is standing there waiting.

Hunters in the forest, farmers, or late night streetwalkers respectively, will see this surreal sight from a distance, of a small girl standing, alone and waiting.

As they approach, proximity sensors will start a digital recording of her weeping, and tears will start to roll down her rosy red cheeks.

Waiting Elizabeths can be dotted around the countryside or city in as obscure and desolate places as possible to provoke the most reaction from the viewer.

The project would attempt to make a statement about our current world situation - the forgotten child, waiting, dependant on the adult - a site specific metaphor for what we take for granted, and the repercussions of not thinking about each other, our environment and where progress is blindly taking us.