Golden Skin, mylar, composite gold leaf, gold size, cloth tape, 2021
Golden Skin, mylar, composite gold leaf, gold size, cloth tape, 2021
Sizes: 42 x 82.5” (widest one, biggest hands)
35.25 x 83.5” (turned out feet)
33.5 x 81”
34 x 82” (long wrists)
I originally came to the idea of wanting to make these skins as an exploration of flaying. I was interested in the brutality and was feeling raw and exposed and stripped down.
Biomorphic/ anthropomorphic
Roving/wandering
Languishing
Flayed body
Empty/inhabited
Human body/spirit body
Physical touching/ healing: Comfort, wrap, cloak, coat, hold, hug
I wanted to make something that was corporal yet empty/a shell of the physical body and the essence of being a soul. Dalai Lama: No body, no mind
Residing in the liminal space of consciousness- body and soul at the same time
Searching for a place to be, looking for grounding. (I made this first when we were uprooted)
Skin as a threshold and a barrier
something to shed-leading to transformation
something to step into
something that acts as a protective coating and boundary
a threshold between interior and exterior world
a house for consciousness separate from the physical world that we reside in
A protective sheath
Skin allows you to traverse to a different space and see a different self
It’s not important that things are perfect, just that you keep showing up to search and discover.
Lost but searching (for self)
Holding this dichotomy in tension as a place of self discovery
Gold: Luminous, light source, reflective, self reflection
Divine, nod to depiction of divine in art
Mythology- reference to the golden fleece’s powerful healing abilities
