Touch Assignment
(From A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman)
"Sex is the ultimate intimacy, the ultimate touching when, like two paramecia, we engulf one another. We play at devouring each other, digesting each other, we nurse on each other, drink each other's fluids, actually get under each other's skin."
(-Diane Ackerman A Natural History of the Senses)
Artist Statement:
Skin is vital in human sexuality. Another person sees you in a way that you will never be able to see yourself. Although your own, skin is unexplored- a plethora of unknown bends and crevices. Opening physically to another is intimacy...ultimate gift within the realm of touch.
Ackerman's words that people "actually get under each other's skin" is inspiring. Literally sex engulfs and enters skin, allowing another to see you vulnerable, emotional, and even upset.
I chose this grotesque and somewhat carnivorous image to reflect Ackerman's other descriptions (i.e., as devouring, digesting, drinking). I rendered the pair candles because they melt much like lovers feel they are able to do.
"Our skin is what stands between us and the world. If you think about it, no other part of us makes contact with something not us but the skin. It imprisons us, but it also gives us individual shapes...
it can mend itself when necessary and is constantly renewing itself. Weighing from six to ten pounds, it's the largest organ of the body, and the key organ of sexual attraction."
(-Diane Ackerman A Natural History of the Senses)
Artist Statement:
Daily, each person carries six to eight pounds of a barrier- namely skin. We are minds and spirits, experiencing the world through membranes of skin. Everything we filter is because our bodies allow us sensation. No person is omnipotent. The world spins, and we can only ride, interpreting all through individual bodies.
We run fast, embrace the water surfing, pet soft animals, pick flowers with potent fragrance, feast well... we are intimate. This is a blessing, but like Ackerman writes, it also imprisons us. Afterall, we will never get past our skin. Instead, we find ways to become content in our containers.
My art is inspired by my understanding that skin is an outer-shell for something greater in humanity.
My figure is relieved because she has finally dropped the weight; she has finally broken the barrier. Her skin is kept, in part, because the human senses are enjoyable. She persists, as we all should, in joyfully experiencing them.
Under Your Skin
Ink Pen and Paper (8x11)
Reading:"Sex is the ultimate intimacy, the ultimate touching when, like two paramecia, we engulf one another. We play at devouring each other, digesting each other, we nurse on each other, drink each other's fluids, actually get under each other's skin."
(-Diane Ackerman A Natural History of the Senses)
Artist Statement:
Skin is vital in human sexuality. Another person sees you in a way that you will never be able to see yourself. Although your own, skin is unexplored- a plethora of unknown bends and crevices. Opening physically to another is intimacy...ultimate gift within the realm of touch.
Ackerman's words that people "actually get under each other's skin" is inspiring. Literally sex engulfs and enters skin, allowing another to see you vulnerable, emotional, and even upset.
I chose this grotesque and somewhat carnivorous image to reflect Ackerman's other descriptions (i.e., as devouring, digesting, drinking). I rendered the pair candles because they melt much like lovers feel they are able to do.
Shedding
Ink Pen and Paper (8x11)
Reading:"Our skin is what stands between us and the world. If you think about it, no other part of us makes contact with something not us but the skin. It imprisons us, but it also gives us individual shapes...
it can mend itself when necessary and is constantly renewing itself. Weighing from six to ten pounds, it's the largest organ of the body, and the key organ of sexual attraction."
(-Diane Ackerman A Natural History of the Senses)
Artist Statement:
Daily, each person carries six to eight pounds of a barrier- namely skin. We are minds and spirits, experiencing the world through membranes of skin. Everything we filter is because our bodies allow us sensation. No person is omnipotent. The world spins, and we can only ride, interpreting all through individual bodies.
We run fast, embrace the water surfing, pet soft animals, pick flowers with potent fragrance, feast well... we are intimate. This is a blessing, but like Ackerman writes, it also imprisons us. Afterall, we will never get past our skin. Instead, we find ways to become content in our containers.
My art is inspired by my understanding that skin is an outer-shell for something greater in humanity.
My figure is relieved because she has finally dropped the weight; she has finally broken the barrier. Her skin is kept, in part, because the human senses are enjoyable. She persists, as we all should, in joyfully experiencing them.
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