Skin Make Yummy

This work is part of my series “Color, Balance” where bodily artifacts removed from fashion photography become the base for paintings I create in Photoshop. I add subtle layers of digital paint and push pixels to blend the figure’s remnants into the background. I use color as a spatial feature, shifting away the boundary of the body to further blur lines between abstraction and figuration. In response to the growing demands of the screen, I strive to balance the off-kilter relationship between digital and physical space. One aspect of this practice involves drawing attention to dysmorphia in the beauty industry. Titles for pieces such as “No cookie-cutter” and “You’ve lost all of my shape”...View all