Max's Cow

Im now pretty certain that I want to create a large sculpture of a cow with its mouth sewn shut from a Max Fleisher cartoon. Im largely concerned with what emotions and messages he carries himself and how these can be changed, added to or taken away by his placement within a specific space. Ive started looking into the formal aspects of making him like how big hell be, how people will view him, what materials he should be made from and what colours he should be. As the overall idea behind this project is to make people happy Ive started to look into colour assosciations and colour therapy. Im aware that its a tricky field as different people feel differently about different colours but I was hoping some research would show some general patterns. I found this site about colour theory which gives a brief overview of what psychological effects are assosciated with different colours. Besides that i still need to figure out his shape too. Ive been concerned about the fact that the sculpture, being static, can only interact directly with a viewer when its being viewed directly from the front. From behind his helplessness in being static gives him other connotations. Ive been trying to deal with this by experimenting with things like making his back flat or adding a detail to his back of a long johns flap. This latter of these ideas Im happiest with, as it would continue a narrative as you move around the object, though Im concerned it might call for too much sympathy and not enough comedy.