Yoga Animals brought to life body artists

To transform her models into realistic animals like a caterpillar, a crocodile and a cobra, 29 year old Emma Fay spends hours using water-based paints. A set of 10 images called the Union of Yoga is her latest work. It celebrates the the yoga discipline by painting the subject of each yogic pose on the human body. Jonathan Macauley captured each pose on camera as Fay painstakingly painted each model’s body.

Emma said, ‘The latest series of work we’ve produced is the Union of Yoga, it’s celebrating the yoga discipline and looking at how we can combine the spiritualist practice with my art. It’s a series of ten artworks looking at the origins of yoga and then taking the visual interpretations of the actual yoga names and painting them on the human body.’

Through her work, Fay aims to visualize the cohesion between art and spiritual practice. But the process was not simple. She added, ‘To create the series we had to experiment a little bit. To keep true to the pose and to actually paint the chosen subject matter onto the model while in the pose was actually quite challenging. I work with three models and they were chosen because they are yoga practitioners and yogis. The work takes about a day to produce but there’s a lot of research involved, we had to test the poses to find the right angle to shoot the work so that we were also true to the yoga pose itself.’

Her models were all yoga practitioners, and with their help, she was able to create accurate depictions of each yoga pose. The Leicester-based artist said the models did not have to maintain the pose the entire time even though, the final photo requires the models to hold the pose precisely.

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