"Death, like life, is not a momentary event but is an ongoing process whose traces line the body. At the point where I make contact with the world, I am always already dead."

Mark C. Taylor, 1997, Hiding

The work series 'Archaeology of Skin' draws on laboratory environment settings and is created using biomedical references. It reflects indirectly on developments in biological science due to the employment of d ermatological research methods and equipment during my research period in order to create these works while remaining a personal artistic archaeology of the epidermis.