February 8, 2002

Art That Broke the Mold

By KAREN BIRCHARD

Kathryn Wehrle really gets into her art. Problem is, it sometimes takes medics to get her out. The senior fine-arts student at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario, was trapped for five hours last month inside a body-length plaster mold that she and two classmates had been preparing for a sculpture course.

"Everyone says it's my 15 minutes of fame," says Ms. Wehrle. Her Warholian moment began after she slathered Vaseline all over her body and then was covered, head to toe, in the

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