Second Skin is a project at the intersection of photography, painting and digital image-making, exploring the body as a surface, memory and image at the same time.

The works begin with photographs of the female body. Over these photographs I layer abstract textures that I first create physically with paint. I then digitize these painted textures and place them back onto the body as a new visual layer. Each image therefore goes through several transformations: body, photograph, painting, digital texture, and finally returns to the body in a transformed state.

The result is an image where it is difficult to separate skin from paint, photography from painting, and the physical from the digital. The body becomes a surface, and the image becomes a kind of second skin — a layer that both conceals and reveals, protects and distorts, records and transforms.

Second Skin is a project about the body in the age of images, about surface as memory, and about the boundary between touch and pixel, presence and representation.