In A Skin Studies, Musings on First Impressions, 2013

Have you ever stopped to consider that moment when you're surrounded by new faces? For me I often experience a re-occuring feeling that is not so unlike being a person inside myself. Each and every sensory orifice is transformed into a window that I peer out of and in turn is open wide to let the world in. I'm an observer.

If the first impression of someone, and following that, the nuances of getting to know said person could be distilled and re-composed into material form, that is what this piece seeks to do. In the process I've assumed a lot. 

In A Skin Studies, Musings on First Impressions consists of three unnamed characters. They are each crafted from and into a different type of 'skin.' The viewer has the potential to experience the characters from a distance as well as up-close and from inside if they so wish. As with meeting a new person, it is one's own perogative whether or not to get too close. 

Character 1 : Suspended MDF board, nails, cotton pads, twine, wireCharacter 2: dried orange skins woven around wire cage with twine & suspended.Character 3: dried banana and orange skins, perforated and hand-sewn together over a wire support and suspendedLight on the Inside of Character 3