Skin 2000

Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York

After extensive research on various aspects of protective skins and barriers, my study increasingly progressed inward, towards the psychology of protection. One technique came to involve the use of pleasant flower patterns. This distractive camouflage is aimed at diminishing the transparency of my forms and preoccupies the viewer with the object’s surface rather than it’s inner life.

Contrasting shapes and materials express disharmony. Clumsy heads and legless bodies dressed in elaborate fabrics are suspended from their exterior tubular steel frameworks. Without such imposed structures these lumpy creatures, in lack of their own backbone, would inevitably melt into the floor.