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PROJECT TO LEAVE A MONUMENT OF ONESELF

R. Sedov, Athlete, Track Champion, Voroshilov

Each person has the entirely natural desire to leave some sort or monument about oneself, and of course, it should fulfill at least three functions: it should not disappear over a short period of time because of flimsy material or as a result of weather or social cataclysms; secondly, at the same time it should be sufficently majestic and grandiose, it should definitely make an impression; and of course, the third condition: the monument should have the mark of the personality to whom it is raised, his unrepeatable individuality, and not only various abstract ideas which concerned him in life.

The project of a mountain monument described below satisfies all these requirements and adds yet another quality - it is very difficult to replicate it, it is unique in its concept and without a doubt, can be viewed and accepted as a personality who not only recognized his uniqueness and exclusivity. but who also had the desire to remain after his death far away from the noise of people, to shut himself off and to remain eternally amidst a landscape majestic and inaccessible to people.

A sleep crevice between cliffs with broad rock descents is sought out in an inaccessible mountain area. A plaster mold is made of both legs up to the shins of the one who wants to erect the monument, this will serve as the model. After this, at the foot of the cliffs, a brigade of explosive experts and rock cutters replicate first the form of both legs, using large but exact replicas of the mold, and then the side parts of the shins and the back of the calves are replicated in the upper parts of the rock cracks. After the completion of these sculpture works and the polishing of the rocks, the effect will arise of a gigantic figure which stood there and indented the rock and then set off in an unknown direction.

PROJECT TO LEAVE A MONUMENT OF ONESELF

1. Prepare a small box 42 x 50 x 10 cm with a quantity of wet plaster.

2. Place an irregular shape (sketch No. 1) with a thickness of 3 cm on the bottom of the box.

3. Step into the box with your bare feet (preferably men's feet, but women's are OK as well).

4. Begin to place the wet plaster, starting with the toes, not covering the foot on the top, and the back of the legs, not covering the calves from the front. The plaster should be poured in such a way that when it dries, you can easily remove your legs by stepping out of the plaster. The model is 52 cm high.

5. At the same time, make the side, external sides of the "sculpture" so that they resemble cliffs and precipices of a mountain mass.

6. Remove the finished model along with the board, and paint it like gray cliffs.