Into the Woods

—2010—

This work consists of three scenes showing a couple in a forest.
The protagonists are represented in cut leather, which refers to skin and clothing as tangible boundaries between the body and its environment. The cutting produces different textures by creating voids that let the white surface underneath shine through so as to outline the bodies and the various plants that surround them, forming a forest.

In this play with textures, the boundaries that separate our bodies from nature begin to blur, mirroring what goes on in our mind when we find ourselves confronted with nature. This work is the artist’s first approach of the notion of embodied and situated cognition, which posits that the mind is a complex phenomenon resulting from the interaction of the brain, the body and the world at large.