Joseph Albers and Skins

This selection from the series Albers and Skins started with a memory of me sleeping the siesta with my father in the town of Caujeri in Orinte, Cuba. I would make believe that his body was a topographical map of the valley. His belly and chest where the mountains we passed to get there and the legs and torso, the lowlands. I would use a pyramidal piece of wood and run it over his body creating roads by flattening his curly hair. I zoomed and scanned my body in pieces to push it into an Albers painting.