2012 Skin

Skin is a series of large-scale, highly detailed portraits of the hands of people very close to me. Our hands are in constant contact with the rest of the world, more worn and creased than anywhere else on the body apart from perhaps the feet (another favourite subject matter of mine). They are tough yet sensitive, dexterous and yet somehow vulnerable, and highly demonstrative of complex emotions. Through constant wear they bear the inscriptions of our life experience, our passions and fears and memories layered over one another like a palimpsest.

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