Video: Skin as a palimpsest: hands painted by artist Kim Anderson
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Hands can tell as much about a person as their eyes. The skin covered with a cobweb of wrinkles keeps memories of the days gone through, of the difficulties that we had to face. Artist Kim Anderson created a series of drawings with a self-explanatory title "Skin"which depict the stages of hand aging. The images are inked on white Japanese washi paper, a special material made of wood by hand. Each pair of hands captured by Kim Anderson is well known to her, because the artist “copied” them from close people.
The pictures show the aging process of the skin, the age range from 32 to 90 years. It is not by chance that the artist chose washi to create her canvases, since this material has an amazing texture, it is very flexible and almost transparent. Touching the "washi", you can feel a special warmth, so that the material literally breathes life. You can't find a better canvas for Kim Anderson's drawings, because black and white hands look even more realistic thanks to the unique play of light and shadow, as well as the fact that, as they evolve, the washi canvases literally float in the air.
Kim Anderson compares human hands to a palimpsest, which is imprinted with passions and fears throughout life, each line like a memory. The artist explains that there is no other part of the body that would be in so much contact with the outside world. Over time, the skin of the hands becomes coarser, becomes more and more vulnerable, and this was shown by Kim Anderson in her paintings.
The wrinkled hands, according to the artist, resemble a topographic map on which the stages of our life are marked. “I look for precious memories that remain at my fingertips, but from time to time I find the forgotten pain of loss in my knuckles. I was honored to study the smallest details of someone else's body in such detail that these people themselves are unlikely to ever look so carefully at their hands. I hope that I will be able to tell their stories truthfully and sensitively,”the artist admits.
Certain paintings from the Skin series received special awards: for example, painting 58 entered the final of the Hazelhurst Art Award, and paintings 32 and 90 entered the final of the Agendo Emerging Artist Award. Kim Anderson's large-scale works can be seen by everyone in January and February next year at the La Trobe Visual Arts Center in Bendigo (Victoria, Australia).
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