VISCOUS BODIES

Video, 2 minutes 30 seconds, 2021

Viscous Bodies compares the viscoelastic material relationships between human skin and hot glass, presented in diptych. This work challenges the formal interpretations of “body” between seemingly distinct materials, comparing close-scale imagery of the transmorphic similarities between human skin and hot glass. Working with glass is an exercise in rethinking how we move and control our own bodies, a performative contortion to achieve a desired end product. In this thinking, the body itself becomes a material that can be molded, changed, and formed. This work expands the definition of material, presenting glass as a body and the body as material.