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Second Skin
2008

Second Skin

We all have a body; this is obvious. Our lives are structured by our body: When we are hungry - we eat, when we are cold - we cover up, when we are tired - we sleep, and yet how do we actually understand our relationship with our body? Is our body more than these physical indicators? Does our body extend past this physical form? What role does our body play in the understanding of our identity? Do we have only one body or do we create multiple bodies for ourselves? Where does our body end and our environment begin? 
 
The Second Skin series of artworks and installations explores how we, as humans, experience and understand our bodies and how our experiencing of our body and its interactions affect the whole of who we “are”. Second Skin focuses on how we clothe, shape, protect, and define our bodies. It explores what we choose to place upon our body and how, in turn, those choices become not only a part of how we understand our body but also an extension of our body.
 
These “skins” with which we wrap our bodies become the shifting boundaries between interior and exterior. These “skins” are membranes through which we filter our experiencing of the exterior, sensual world. They can serve as protection from the unknown and at the same time, they define who we are. In this way, they can become impenetrable barriers to our experiencing of the sensual world around us. These “skins” can also be porous, shifting borderlands allowing sensual experiences through, blurring the boundaries between the exterior and the interior worlds and broadening our understanding of what are body is and what it can be.
 
--Jjenna Hupp Andrews

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  • Home
    • Contact
  • Teaching
    • Teaching Philosophy >
      • Teaching Philosophy Essay
    • Courses >
      • Course Descriptions
    • Student Artwork >
      • Two-Dimensional Design
      • Three-Dimensional Design
      • Sculpture
      • In the Studio
    • Professional Development
  • Artwork
    • Exhibitions >
      • Mott Art Faculty Exhibition -GFAC
      • STATUS 2019
      • Flint City Artists 2019
      • Flint: More than Just Water, and Exhibition
      • ArtPATH Lansing 2018
      • Lifeblood
      • Artists Treading Water
      • Nomadic Boarderlands
      • Second Skin
      • All They Survey
      • Liminal
      • Touching Life
      • intervals…interfaces…interstices
    • Suffer the little children series >
      • Suffer the little children, COVID-19 Portrait Series
      • Suffer the little children... War/Refugee Portrait Series
      • Suffer the little children...(Installations)
      • Postcards from the forgotten edge of forever
    • Selected Artwork >
      • Of Umbrellas & Votes
    • In Process >
      • Suffer the Little Children... In Process
      • SAY HER/HIS/THEIR NAME
  • Publications
    • Books >
      • Flint Water Crisis
      • Lost In Media
      • Dissertation
    • Articles
    • Presentations >
      • Inclusive Language in the Remote Learning Environment
      • The Water Within LAND Conference 2-7-19
      • Facing College: Engaging International and Immigrant Students through a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Storytelling Project.
      • Seek & Find: Connections
      • Contemporary Artists as Stewardship
      • Act! Do Something
      • Wangechi Mutu
      • Ask me Why I'm RAD
      • Exploring ‘My Place(s) in this World’
      • Watching a Revolution
    • Speaking Engagements >
      • Multiple Identities, Two Cultures, One Voice: The Art & Activism of Contemporary Afro-Latina & Afro-Latinx-Q Artists
      • Don't tell me what to do: Creative Careers Vol. 1
      • The Aesthetic Lens: Engaging Sociopolitical Injustice Through Art
      • Artists Treading Water
      • Social Justice Speaker in Residence
    • Press >
      • Student Project
      • Donor Mural
    • CV
  • Blog