Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk
Skin Panel #1 2025
Fiber-based sculptural panel
Hand-pulled linen threads
14” x 16” inches
Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk
Skin Panel #2 2025
Fiber-based sculptural panel
Hand-pulled linen threads
14” x 16” inches
Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk
Skin Panel #3 2025
Fiber-based sculptural panel
Hand-pulled linen threads
14” x 16” inches
Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk
Skin Panel #4 2025
Fiber-based sculptural panel
Hand-pulled linen threads
14” x 16” inches
Skin Panels is an ongoing body of work rooted in a slow, tactile process of pulling linen threads to shift their structure. Through this deliberate manipulation, the fabric transforms into a mutable skin—one that carries traces of the body without depicting it. As the threads reorganize, the panels develop protrusions, swellings, folds, and soft elevations that echo the contours of flesh. These forms surface intuitively, revealing the body’s subconscious knowledge—its memories, burdens, ruptures, and quiet attempts at repair.
Rather than functioning as textiles or traditional reliefs, the Skin Panels inhabit an in-between space, oscillating between sculpture and surface. They operate as somatic maps, charting the ways the body remembers: through tension, through softness, through the fragile architectures that rise when material is pushed and coaxed into new configurations.
Each panel becomes a site where vulnerability meets structure. The reshaped threads create densities and openings that evoke scars, growths, and organic formations—gestures that resonate with the internal geographies shaped by trauma, migration, and resilience. In this series, the body is not represented but felt; not illustrated, but reconstructed through material labor, repetition, and the transformation of textile from within.