Skin Out Of My Soul 2001
Clothes Design With Project Tattoos
Alvar Aalto Museum - Jyväskylä, Finland
When thinking on the theme skin, various images spring to mind: body tattoos, the Japanese tattoo tradition, diving suits, Issey Miyake's work, a Formula 1 overall, the human body. Then I ask myself, what is the meaning of soul? Why do we know that a flower has a soul? It is perhaps an inexplicable world, secret, a world without words, a cocoon, the after-life. How deep is thought? What is my soul? I allow my thoughts to pass by and the illusions have genuine content. For a moment I imagine an internal skin and external soul. Then I wanted to fuse these themes and I had the idea of combining my work with clothing. Body works.
A three-dimensional sketch of my work represented in the form of clothes with some tattoos. As fragments, as a preliminary to the difficult question: What is «skin» and what is «soul»? But also as images for something I call my soul. But it is only my work as a designer.