Sticky Skin
2022, 264 pieces of sticky tape, cardboard box of fragmented paper, plastic container of dust, various sizes
Over a 14-week journey during 2021 I developed a relationship with one room, continuously shifting and repositioning hundreds of drawings and photographs using sticky tape. It held literal parts of my body, fingerprints, hair and skin, traces of specific times of physical contact.
The tape was particularly important to that project as it could secure materials impulsively, without permanency. It was not the subject, nor the hero of that work, though it was the skin that secured the space. Each piece was moved several times, painted over, scrunched up, scratched and trodden on.
This bodily matter has absorbed my body’s memory of those experiences. When re-encountering these fragments I re-experience that time, through this extension of skin.
