Tag: skin
“Leather is dead animal skin,” says designer Victoria Ledig. Her big purse, clutch and make-up bag are made from leather and you can really, really tell. One looks just like cow skin peeled of a cow’s face. Another is a cow ear pouch, thick and pink. Another is a snout, it’s nose holes incorporated into the […]
British artist Jessica Harrison created the fleshy sculpture series “Handheld” by extracting the skin off of her own arms and legs and molding them into these wonderfully unsettling mini-furniture pieces. Just kidding. The artist made casts of her hands to create synthetic skin material, but the resemblance is uncanny, no? Moving beyond a bi-directional model, Harrison proposes a […]
