Witch of the Waste

According to the assignment, the project is inspired by the antagonist of the film Howl’s Moving Castle by Studio Ghibli.

The witch character represents:

changeability, illusiveness, physicality
the desire for power lost with age
the archetype of theatrical female decay and pretense

Studio Ghibli often depicts negative female characters with extreme features:

strong, grotesque, decaying
the boundary between ridicule and horror
exaggeratedly obese and wrinkled, reminiscent of jelly