Story highlights Graham is an interactive, life-size sculpture

It's designed to reveal how vulnerable our bodies are during car accidents

(CNN) To up your chances of surviving a car accident, it would help if your ultra-thick ribcage were lined with sacs that served as natural airbags and if your face were flattened, your skull much larger, your skin thicker and your knees able to move in all directions.

There's only one "human" in the world who possesses all these unnatural characteristics and more.

Meet Graham.

He's an interactive, life-size sculpture with a grotesque human look who's part of a road safety campaign for the Transport Accident Commission of Victoria, Australia. Melbourne artist Patricia Piccinini constructed him primarily from silicone and human hair.

"This is an artwork, and it needs to connect with the audience on an emotional level while still communicating some very serious ideas," Piccinini said. "The idea is to stimulate conversation and questions rather than tell people what to think or feel."

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