2020
en- / un- / -en
en-
: in : within
: go into or onto : unto
: cover with
: cause to be
: provide with
: so as to cover
: thoroughly
un-
: not : in : non
: opposite of : reverse
: deprive of : remove from
: release from : free
: extract : bring out of
: cause to cease to be
: completely
-en
: cause : come to be
: cause : come to have
: of
en- /un- /-en (2020). Multimedia installation & text ; Inkjet prints on silk imaging the interior of aloe vera moulds, copper pipe & fittings, moulding & body casting silicone, resin, pigment, beeswax & flocking fibre ; Dimensions variable
Skin Suit
SKIN SUIT
Vast terrain
between she and her
Moving quickly across a geography of skin
between spaces of ache and fever incensed
by twinning forces of soft breath and coarse cloth alike
Pallid flesh so fluent in apology
Betweenness; she moves to cover her shame
desperate; she prepares for endurance
to heal her disunion, a limbic abjuration
asomatous shedding
The nature of her person
her motivation runs constant
and suffuses her being
To spackle and smooth scarified surface
to patch and scrape, buttress and bolster
incite the site of neurological non-happening
to live in between the in-between
a space of her own making
by defacing facets of life and limb no longer
[mine]
Now hewn in silicone suit
a suitable second skin, her sultry twin
the fruits of her labour born out, and
body that threatens perpetual decay
held breathless, buoyant elasticity
yet, gentle, like the dips
and furrows, and softened protrusions
of her now ossified remains
a body no longer hers
Vampiric full-body lift
illusive peel alchemic
From an ongoing body of work first begun in 2019 titled Illness and Objecthood, Skin Suit (2020) is a performance-based multimedia installation that combines object, image, and text.
[Sculpture] Silicone, resin, pigment, acrylic mirror, cotton cord, steel hanging apparatus & hardware ; 60 x 42 x 16”
[Prints] Variations one, four and seven from a series of eleven performance photographs ; Individually titled To spackle and smooth, The nature of her person, and Between she and her (Peel) ; Archival inkjet prints; Editions of three ; 20 x 28”
Bed of Nails
Bed of Nails (2020 – durational ; 2021 documentation) is a durational sculpture and social practice formed through ongoing knowledge-sharing collaborations with practitioners of alternative medicines. Each aloe vera casting is unique and represents a relationship built with a local healer. As such, the work has no fixed finish date and will be documented once each year as the full surface of the bed of nails slowly fills out. Stripped mattress form, tinted resin & wire ; Dimensions variable
Gentle, as the dips, and grooves, and soft protrusions
Photographic polyptych-diptych
Archival inkjet prints ; Edition of five ; two prints at 36 x 45”
