Laureen Zanotti » B-Movie http://laureen.zanotti.name A blog about writing and art Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:39:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Terrible Tooth Monster http://laureen.zanotti.name/the-terrible-tooth-monster/ http://laureen.zanotti.name/the-terrible-tooth-monster/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:06:14 +0000 Laureen http://laureen.zanotti.name/?p=430 Acrylic paint, spray paint, permanent marker, collage on wood, 2,40m x 2,60m, 2003.

The Terrible Tooth Monster is a fictional B-movie character I came up with in 2003. Back then I thought extensively about the kind of flicks I saw as a teenager. I think watching television in the 80s and 90s was more fun. Tomatoes, dolls, scarecrows, or even Santa Claus turned into monsters. Thus, I came up with my own monster around which I constructed the following story: A mad scientist (I named him Dr. Wayne Bower) is working on a cure for tooth decay. While mixing chemicals he unintentionally creates a dangerous potion. Then, he tests the solution on his back tooth. The tooth starts to grow bigger and bigger and turns into The Terrible Tooth Monster!TTM (The doctor -this shouldn’t come as a surprise- doesn’t make it).
My professor noticed my doodle and said: “Make it really big”–so I did. Needless to say that it was one of the most controversial pieces of the university’s art exhibition.

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