A Thin Veneer: Expressions Through Skin


In the beginning

knowing our world through the unworried skin of our chubby palms
and the moist nodules of our gaping maws.

our eyes take command

we endeavor to define I.


Budding adolescence

bringing elastic, ecstatic pleasures of the flesh
paired with cringing calcification of protective shells.


Defying adult narrowness

artists probe and project, lick and shave, stretch and tear, reveal,
play and hide within

literal, cultural and mythical metaphoric crusts.


Stick your finger in the pie

what are we without our barriers?

erode the ever-present membrane between art and nonart, artist and nonartist


Probe the thin veneer between you and not you