Hard Skin

‘Hard Skin’ and ‘Concrete Jungle’ have been combined and displayed in my degree show titled ‘Hard Skin’. Also bringing in objects and elements of nature providing a more tactile display, bringing out elements of the photographs into a 3D form. The rocks have been collected from the location the images were taken.

Being immersed in nature since moving to the British countryside from Japan a few years ago, and then moving to London for University, these feelings of attachment to nature became more prominent. This created feelings of loss and desire as I found that when I moved away from home, my relationship with home changed, it intensified and became romanticised.

Thoroughly researching into fast fashion for my dissertation and learning the catastrophic consequences this industry produces. Wanting to create my own form of garments with the lowest possible impact on the environment. I desired to return life back to the environment and protecting the damage already done I began to clothe the landscape with fabrics in which I hand dyed with tree bark waste. A protective layer of skin for the landscape as a way to preserve what we already have. There is an element of life in the bark which has been passed through into the fabric, giving the bark a second life through colour, rather than being waste. A kind of safety blanket. Returning what it once provided.

If you would like to read more about this body of work written by Krasimira Butseva for Revolv Collective please visit

http://revolv.org.uk/artists/lcc-degree-show-highlights/