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