Organic
Mediums
The project explores the human body as an organic matter, celebrating our resemblance and intricate connection to nature. I propose to forget societal beauty standards and appreciate the diversity of shapes, colors, and textures as we do in the natural world. I underline the aspects of the body that people prefer to disregard, such as hair, wrinkles, or pigmentation. I want the viewer to recognize landscapes in the folded texture of the skin, grass bushes in the hair of the armpit, and hills in the shapes of human elbows.
Bush
Lentic
Elbow Hills
B&W
Lucidum
Mushroom
Lentic
Mixed media; plaster, colourant, gold leaf, instacoll
The shiny and alive appearance of the gold mimics moving waters, while the life-casted ears mimic water lilies or other natural forms. The inspiration came from swimming at a countryside peat lake.
Elbow Hills
VR
The project first manifested itself in physical form. The bodily entities were created by casting elbows through impressing them into clay. The surreal world links humans and the Earth.
enter elbow hills world
B&W
Etching prints
The Black & White prints feature a close-up of a skin texture in a series of 38 diverse skin colors and conditions. The process of mimicking such an erratic pattern allows me to appreciate the beauty of its complexity.