The surgery site on my forearm for an upcoming gender-affirming surgery is replicated as an iridescent silicone skin, scarred and tattooed to match my right arm then suspended above a cast of my hand as if to levitate the forearm 'skin' toward erection and reformation.
This work can be installed either reaching toward the skin or levitating the skin.
RFF (Reaching for Freedom)
2023
Ink and pigment on silicone, plaster, my blood, egg yolk, tar, fishing line, oak stump, salt, pearls, copal resin, and metal key
53 x10 x7 inches
RFF (After Held)
2020, 2022
Tattoo ink and pearl-ex pigment on silicone and monofilament with egg yolk and my blood on plaster
18" x 5" x 7"
RFF (After Held)
2020, 2022
Tattoo ink and pearl-ex pigment on silicone and monofilament with egg yolk and my blood on plaster
18" x 5" x 7"
RFF (After Held)
2020, 2022
Tattoo ink and pearl-ex pigment on silicone and monofilament with egg yolk and my blood on plaster
18" x 5" x 7"
RFF (After Held)
2020, 2022
Tattoo ink and pearl-ex pigment on silicone and monofilament with egg yolk and my blood on plaster
18" x 5" x 7"