Embedded

Pillows are given a new surface of skin collaged from fashion magazines making an allusion to the human body. Each pillow, resembling a small torso or, alternatively, an enlarged skin-flake, is then coated with successive layers of varnish and paint until it has accrued a rich and oiled patina with an enhanced surface reminiscent of stalagmite formations. The pillows will then be sewn together to form a large sheet or pelt, like an overgrown duvet (making a reference to the materials’ original context and the associated human experiences: love, sex, birth, death, rest). Each segment has its individual beauty, its own characteristics, but the real quality comes from its multiplicity, from its strength in numbers.
This painting will then be suspended from the gallery ceiling on transparent fishing line filling the space and causing the viewer to navigate around the work, spending time with it, and gaining a sense of its intended meaning from its imagery, the materials, and its physicality. It will take the form of a landscape, creating a metaphor for the relationship between human-kind and the environment we both inhabit and influence. Lit from above, the gloss surface sparkles, making it seem alive, moist, almost breathing.