S K I N N E D

“We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood – between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll

“Out of many, one people.” - Jamaican Proverb

There is something I find very special about visiting the beach. I’m fascinated by how it reveals natural mysteries of the human body to me while walking alongside the shore. It is evident that no one grain of sand is the same, but in viewing them together my naked eye perceives them as one color, or a single tone. Though they are not, I find this realization very compelling to create work about. As I explore my own studies of the human “skin” (being the largest organ of the body) and its various pigmentations and tones we can see vs. the colors in tone we cannot. What does this idea do to the psyche, and how can man’s misconstrued perceptions of skin color be given a language through which we can speak of the human race? I guess I won’t find out until the results of my inquiry washes ashore and makes its way into the studio…Studio 04.