Nine Skins: California

Polaroids
4"x4"
2005

NINE LIVES/NINE SKINS:

Even in the small increment of day to day I still believe in the myth I learned when I was younger and softer, of nine possible lives.

It seems that these nine chances happen not on the grand scale of reincarnated existence, but in the mundane, particular inventions and transformations of day to day, in the transformative in-between realms of dress and undress.

There is something luscious and a bit terrible in removing garments: a moment of dislocation occurs when these shirts, these temporary skins crumple and lay as independent, still warm shapes on the floor, deflating without interiority.

Nine Skins is a series derived from this ordinary ritual of nightly undress.