I was thinking about the qualities of skin and how to bring them into my work, and I was looking at work by Hannah Wilke and I found this installation by Eva Hesse, which I see as a beautiful description of skin-
'Eight sheets of fabric dipped in latex and suspended in fibre glass hang from the ceiling. They are all roughly human scale, varying between about nine and ten foot in height. Some hover just above the floor whilst others just tickle its surface, one bends at the base, seemingly under the force of its contact with the floor. The fabric dipped in latex tends to reach from about a quarter to three quarters of the sheets entire length. At each end, therefore, is a crumbled, transparent area of fibreglass, which allows light to flood through. Light is able to pierce the more opaque central sections, occasionally working its way through chinks in the fabric or occasionally glowing through an area where the surface is stretched like a membrane.'
Maybe I could think about using latex in my work to mimic the skin- maybe dipping a sculpture into liquid latex to form a thin membrane over one of the phallic shapes.
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