This work explores landscape of the body by combining projections of abstract anatomical drawings with the human figure. The drawing is a second skin, something that makes the person being photographed unique, but also semi-anonymous. Informed by the unique wisdom and geometry of the body, the photographs use light, color, and pattern to reveal the great expanse of the human form. In order to meld the figures and the drawing, I observed diagrams in anatomy textbooks. Pattern plays an important role in developing the image. Is it camouflage, tattoo, stained glass, or paint? The figures subsumed in the densely laden anatomical motif create a feeling of psychological disorientation.

The connection of the mind and body in this work is informed by gender and dance. One of the most important insights from gender theory and movement exploration is that the body is a source of information that cannot always be communicated through language. Bringing awareness that intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, etc. determine the way humans experience the world, “Second Skin” shines a light on empowering all bodies.

Charlotte Woolf is a queer identified photographer from Charlotte, North Carolina based in New York City. She is a current MFA candidate at SUNY-Purchase College of Art+Design and received her BA in Studio Art and Women’s & Gender Studies from Kenyon College.

For more information, please contact Charlotte Woolf at: woolf.charlotte@gmail.com or visit: www.charlottewoolf.com/

Interview with Charlotte Woolf here