At the centre of her image is a scimitar-shaped dove modelled with all the weight and solidity associated with her large-scale marble works.
The Dove models included violinist Stella Page, who weighs 10.5 stone and is a size 14, and estate agent Joanna Cook, who is 5ft 11in and a size 12.
Among the strangers who dull and even erase her pain are her landlord's wife, a former Dove soap model who within minutes of their meeting describes her domestic abuse and infidelities, and a young shell collector on the beach who cannot understand her and comes from a miserable home.
The main character in Josephine Herbst's 1954 novella "Hunter of Doves" is modeled on West.
Rain Dove, as the model is known, has been in the news lately for playing a role in providing text messages from Asia Argento that suggested a prior intimate relationship between the actress and a young actor who is now suing Ms. Argento for sexual abuse.
The rules of the relevant evolutionary game are thus, in actual fact, far more complicated than in the dove and hawk model.
For her first project she bought a live dove to be the model for a set made out of crystal.
On a chilly evening last winter, the model Rain Dove Dubilewski, 28 and their roommate and friend Cory Wade Hindorff, 27, were addressing an audience at the Phluid Project on the struggle to promote fluidity in a world inured to one-size-fits-all expressions of self — gender, in Mx.
