A Visual Haiku

The Scream of the Skin is an intimate collection of fragments. Eyes, lips, landscapes of the body where the shade of skin becomes irrelevant and wrinkles form their own textuality. The body becomes a snapshot of single, poetic moments, stripped of all but primal colour: black, white and sepia. This simplicity of colour heightens the detail. Each photograph becomes a quiet haiku, a comment which hints at a larger presence beyond the canvas. Individuality is played out in the curl of a hair, an eyelash or the oval of a nipple. The joy of this artwork rests with the witness. We bring our subjective realities, our histories and cultural presence to interpret each visual haiku. What is it? What do we really see? Is it an eye or a lip? Consequently, the objective reality of the picture no longer matters. What is important is our personal experience with the subject of the photographs.

This is a series of experimental photographs done in collaboration with the late Robert Bozac

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