Second skin

Second skin

There is nothing superfluous, nothing distracting — only earthy pigment powder.
Monochrome. Pure in itself.
Self-sufficient.
Pigment, lying on the surface, carries its own independent power and life.
Powder, that can't hold on to it if it doesn't want to stay. And that's what it's all about.
There is something sacred about it — alchemy that transforms the invisible into form, the
fleeting into the eternal.
Taking the raw Florentine pigment powder in hand, skin meets mind.

Tactility begins where distance ends.

Running one’s fingertips, open palm, cheek.

Nothing is fixed.

Not backing down, realising that this series of works was never about Paris or Florence.
It's about dust, the powder that decides to stay, entering the canvas with water without residue.
“Second skin” is a series of drawings made with Florentine Zecchi pigments on cotton canvases produced in an antica teleria in Gallarate, Milan, according to ancient Italian weaving traditions.