Skin and Bone / Self-portrait 24
- 2013
- silicone, cotton thread, linen tape, wood, glass, brass
- 100 x 6600 x 100 cm
Human body as structure
Sometimes the human body can feel like a building, architecture that you can walk around inside. Your own body as a city in which the inhabitants live together. This is my own city, in which the most important data carriers for my identity come together: my skeleton combined with my skin.
The skeleton as separate entities
All 172 replica bones, obtained from a CT scan of my own skeleton, are encased in a tightly sewn cover, made from a silicone cast of my own skin. Thus, the cover forms a closed skin and every part of ‘my’ skeleton to independent, separate entities.
Sometimes the human body can feel like a building, architecture that you can walk around inside. Your own body as a city in which the inhabitants live together. This is my own city, in which the most important data carriers for my identity come together: my skeleton combined with my skin.
The skeleton as separate entities
All 172 replica bones, obtained from a CT scan of my own skeleton, are encased in a tightly sewn cover, made from a silicone cast of my own skin. Thus, the cover forms a closed skin and every part of ‘my’ skeleton to independent, separate entities.
- Skeleton
- - Skin and Bone / Self-portrait 24