Process

Here is a link to the draft of a video that my friend, Noah Stout, and I are working on. We plan on developing it more. Warning, I'm not wearing any clothes in this, so ya. Don't show the kids.

Peel

Also check out Noah's other work at shortnstout.net

a photograph of myself taken from far far away

I had some revelations the other day about this work I am doing with skin. For a while I have been frustrated because of the multiple directions the subject of skin has to offer. I was feeling that I should find the most interesting one and go with it. But it's not about what's interesting it's about not knowing who I am.

The skins are self portraits. They are me but not me. I have always been interested in the idea of constant change and skin is constantly changing. I am always transforming. Always letting going of my past self.

And it's a painful process, but a pleasurable pain. Almost like pulling a splinter out of your finger. Actually peeling the glue off my body is strangely reminiscent of adolescence. It's an uncomfortable transformation. Something that happens to you. Sometimes you want it sometimes you don't and sometimes you need help but others you don't. There is a sense of un-harnessable control.

just bubbles