Milk Series, 2001
Pencil, crayon, hair-dye, milk on aged paper. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Courtesy Galerie Samuel Lallouz.
Milk Series, 2001
During 2001 I have developed a series of small-scale drawings with pencil, crayon, milk, creme, and hair-dye. I have made short video performances with my body immersed in milk. "Milk Series" are miniatures representing possible ideas for large-scale sculptures or performances, but they also function as drawings. Created on an aged paper or in found notebooks, they assume the quality of paper as an equal subject matter with the images depicted, focusing on how the paper changes in color and in structure, becoming similar to human skin, fragile and humble. My interest in the direct use or in the referencing bodily fluids results from an ongoing investigation of fluidity as concept, physical and ontological. Fluids have no boundaries and as such they connote the lack of boundaries between the self, the body and the world.
