PAPER SKINS
Aluminum foil, glue, interior wall paint, aluminum rolling pin
Paper Skins transforms a disposable kitchen material into something weighty and enduring. One hundred and eleven pieces of foil were coated and painted white by the artist, her mother, and her daughter before being layered over an aluminum rolling pin, the form recalling a scroll or book. The process embeds multiple generations of touch, each surface carrying traces of handling and care.
The wrinkled sheets take on a skin-like texture, fragile yet persistent, creating a sense of text that might once have lived on the page. What was once ordinary and throwaway becomes dense and permanent. In this transformation, Paper Skins makes visible how fragments—whether material or inherited—gather weight through repetition, memory, and the quiet labor of hands across time.
