skin

For the last number of years I have been working with a print making method that allows me to take direct prints of the human body. For the most part I print onto single-sided Mylar because its semi-translucent character is, itself, skin-like. These prints reveal an unusual amount of detail, and serve as a sort of map, delineating pore structure, pattern of hair follicles, presence of scar tissue, density of muscle mass, and a body's many contour-like layers of fat. What appeals to me about these prints is that they display a complexity that begins to do justice to the question: what does it mean to live as an embodied human being? What does it mean to wear, to live in, to be a body?