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// Beneath The Skin

Beneath the Skin
Beneath the Skin
Beneath the Skin
Beneath the Skin
Beneath the Skin
Beneath the Skin
Beneath the Skin

Documentation of an engaging two-week performance exploring themes of metamorphism and shamanism where the artist returned to the place where he picked up a dead fox (a casualty of road kill) and lived its life for a further 2 weeks in Rural Powys, Wales. The performance was invited to the Body Language Exhibition at Venice Bienalle, in Pallazo Ca' Zanardi in 2015.

Video of Performance

An extract from the artist's field research:

 "I found where I believe is your home,

And for the next period of my life, I lived as you. 

Finding any means to survive.

Our fates entwined when I saw you lying there

My intentions; material.

I wanted you as a scarf, I wanted you as a hat,

A trophy of my salvage,

it was the way I was used to.

 

After spending time with you,

touch of your body,

not being able to look you in the eyes,

becoming normal, becoming a part of me.

Your eyes are amazing,

I wonder what you see every day,

wonder is what brought me to you.

After this time together,

you as my skin,

there became a fusion.

it was then I realised, the self-inflicted metamorphosis,

 within the journey between us.

 

until there was no us,

there was just me."

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Thomas Peter James © 2024.
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