curved surfaces

Skin is a fraught theme in art, and especially in photography. While in the past it's use has been based in beauty and desire, in today’s context of digitization and photographic excess there is the need to decontextualize and reorient, to re-imagine skin as the site of our touching the world, a touching that is the sense of existence. All of our senses are a touching in their own modalities: eyes touch light, ears touch sound waves, and skin touches the air and other skin.

The image, too, has a quality of presence, of being distinct. It is a singularity that initiates its own touching of the world, whereby it evokes a response in our imagination. The image is not simple and self-evident, but contains within itself a depth and an unknowability. Through destabilization of perception, it can move us to new responses and imaginings.

By decontextualizing the body into an image, it becomes sensuous form, a canvas of irregularities, curving lines, a texture of and for touching. It is seen anew and re-imagined with a sense of wonder that can open an appreciation of our embodied togetherness.