ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Jamie McCartney

Jamie McCartney is an artist who makes sculptures. He likes to make sculptures of bodies. He makes them look real, like people. This means he makes sculptures of arms, legs, and even private parts! But you might be wondering how he does it?

Well, Jamie McCartney uses a special material called plaster to make the sculptures. Plaster is like a hard mud that can be molded and shaped. First, he makes a mold of a real body part. This means he puts plaster on someone's body and waits for it to dry. Once the plaster is hard, he takes it off the person's body and he has a mold of that body part!

Then he uses the mold to make a sculpture that looks just like the real body part. Sometimes he even uses different colors of plaster to make the sculptures look really realistic. You might be wondering why he would make sculptures of body parts?

Jamie McCartney wants people to look at his sculptures and think about their own bodies. He wants people to realize that everyone's body is different and that's okay! He thinks it's important to celebrate our bodies and to not be ashamed of them.

So that's Jamie McCartney, the artist who makes sculptures of bodies to make us feel good about ourselves!