“When the skin becomes the paper for a text written by the body, the words are going to be ambiguous, and no statement will have a single meaning.” James Elkins

“The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. “ – David Antin

In printing and drawing images of simple communication, the dots and dashes of Morse Code onto images of skin on whisper thin paper, this work hints at the messages that are hard to decipher, those sensations coming from within. The skin continues to mesmerize me, as I feel we do not always consider or understand the mysteries that exist subcutaneously.

Working in a combination of traditional printmaking, digital printmaking, and drawing which allows me to create images that are mediated in different ways through technology and process. This relationship of the direct mark of pencil on paper controlled by the hand and the indirect nature of the digital image controlled by the artist through layers of technology and digital coding serves as a metaphor for the simplicity and complexity of the human form and its relationship with science.