Alice Lang, an artist based in Brisbane, Australia, makes utterly unique mugs that resemble anatomically correct body parts of the female form.

What sets the mugs apart is that Lang uses herself as a model. She uses 3D scanners to commit the exact contours of her own torso to a mold and then she hand-paints color details onto the resultant doll porcelain. Those details include her own nipples, moles, freckles, and pubic hair.

The two mugs actually interlock and can be stacked on top of each other to create a full torso.

Quoth the New Museum of Contemporary Art:
 

This action is intended to instigate mindful social interaction by making the user playfully complicit in this parody of the objectification, dissemination and consumption of anonymous women’s bodies. This interaction seeks to examine the female body as the site of objectification and explore how women can enact ownership and agency over their own body within this complicated context.

 
Lang is a recent graduate from the MFA program at CalArts and has residencies in Canada, New York, and Los Angeles on her resume. She is a founding co-director of LEVEL, an artist-run initiative in Brisbane.
 

 

 

It can also double as a vase…...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
via Lost at E Minor