My curiousity about bog bodies is based in trying to understand how these people, although long gone from this earth, are still here with us 'in the flesh'.
I began my study by observing and sketching the bodies in museums, Tollund Man, Graubelle Man in Denmark and Germany, Cloney Cavan Man, and several others in the National Museum of Ireland.
After sketching, I decided that I needed to create three-dimensional versions and began to explore how I could do that authentically. I choose to cast them in bronze because of it's permanance. Moreover, this process parallels the life cycle of the bog body. The wax model when finished is  buried in several layers of sand and scilica  as it is dipped, dried and repeated. This builds up a heavy coating over time and the wax body is completely encased in layers. This is  similar to how the body in the bog is buried under several layers of turf over a period of time. 
When the bog body gets discovered and reintroduced into the world the body is still there, it has changed and yet it is the same person. The wax model gets put in a burn out chamber and the wax is removed and then bronze poured into the casing. When cool the casing is then broken away to reveal the bronze bog body. In a similar way the actual bog body is buried in the bog (I equate this with the burn out chamber) but people don't know where they are until they are suddenly discovered and then all the archeologist come aboard and spend their time researching and cleaning the body.
The cleaning and presenting the bronze sculpture can be compared to this latter process.
NOTE:
I plan to make some visuals with left over casings from the bronze cast process and in some of my current pieces I have surrounded them with turf from the bogs of Ireland.

 

Creating  mixed media pieces based on items I have found in my environment has become a way for me to connect the past with the present.  At first, I found myself draw to mostly natural objects but as time passed I began collecting manufactured items too.
These artworks are influenced by objects/people who have completed their useful lives. This could be a body found in the bog in Ireland having been buried there for several years or merely a pine cone that has just dropped from a tree. It is about place, accident, and my finding it, to elevate it to a status of importance.

This section consists of figure drawings, paintings and wax sculptures created during figure drawing sessions at various locations (Ho Co Center for the Arts, MICA, Painting School in Baltimore. Figure drawing gives me time to just relax and draw/sculpt, practice my craft without being too concerned with creating finished pieces.
Sometimes these works do go on to be included in finished pieces and sometimes they can become a stand alone pieces. This is particularly true of the wax figures.