10.17615/RC2K-4H16
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Something That Breaks Your Skin (Bleeding)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
2020
Art
20" x 18" x 2"
In Copyright
Something That Breaks Your Skin utilizes the bodily language from a U.S. State asphalt repair manual as both a starting point and a material. Each one of the photographic works in this series of eight focus on a particular taxonomy of road fault and the associated text from the manual. The photographs recreate example images from the manual, using faults that I found and photographed in the built landscape. Incisions in the mat reveal both the photographs and pertinent text that is appropriated from the manual. In Bleeding, an image of tar seeping through the toothed surface of the asphalt is labeled “FIG. X1.5 Medium-Severity Bleeding."