Work 12
Digital Skin, 2017–2018

Commissioned for Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
Wood, digital vinyl prints, polyethylene foam, and nylon rope. 12 x 26 x 22 feet and 8 x 7 x 5 feet.

Development Models for Digital Skin, 2017
Pipe cleaners
Dimensions variable

Location: Part of annual exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park which chose 13 emerging artists by application.  The park is open every day of the year and serves as a community gathering place, space for art.

Concept: Created from artists’ previous billboard projects, the piece aimed to create an unexpected creature from an alternate world that communicates through images on its skin.

Process: I made modular “bones” out of wood, made pipe cleaner models to create the shape, and wrapped the structure with foam and then upholstered it with the billboards.

Activity

Writing / Discussion Questions:

Write one paragraph on each of the following questions

1. What is a new technology that makes you excited? Describe it and explain why?

2. What kinds of technology make you nervous? Is there a type of technology that you think should be outlawed?  Describe and explain why?

3. What kind of technology would you like to see but haven’t seen yet?  Describe in detail.

Sculpture Activity: Supplies: Paper, drawing tools, pipe cleaners, camera.

Using between 1 and 3 pipe cleaners each, make 3 different invented creatures.

1. Make a creature that is helpful and harmonious.

2. Make a creature that is scary and possibly dangerous.

3. Make a being that is your idea of what a typical person might look like in 500 years.

4. Write one paragraph about each one, explaining its identity, characteristics, and how you made it. 

5. Take a variety of photographs of each sculpture against a neutral background to show its identity and character.