Somaesthesia
Thesis exhibition at Pomona College Art Department. Plaster, foam, silk, hair, ceramic, nylon, thread, sand, wood.
Body as subject, tool and material; objects created both of and with the body. Hair is rope, warp, and weft. The non-human materials share a close relationship to human rituals: clay forms the tubs we bathe in and the bowls we eat from; wood constructs the objects we live in, sit on, eat on; cloths are second skins; foam is the substance we sleep on. The body is the essential activating force of sculptural production: gripping foam into molded place, pressing clay slabs into the fleshy crevices and bony angles of the body, painting a glue soaked sheet onto the skin. The body is understood as a force that permeates and is permeated by materials and space.