Cheap Skin

Bethany makes poetry

Bethany makes poetry assembles color and shape into a landscape of vulnerability, treating the canvas like a site for emotional excavation. This piece uses collage and watercolor to explore the thinness of our protective layers, revealing the vibrant, shaky truth underneath.

Cheap Skin — framed, leaning against the wall
Bethany makes poetry

Cheap Skin

Bethany makes poetry assembles color and shape into a landscape of vulnerability, treating the canvas like a site for emotional excavation. This piece uses collage and watercolor to explore the thinness of our protective layers, revealing the vibrant, shaky truth underneath.

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The delicate rhythm of a paper-thin existence

"Cheap Skin" functions as a tactile exploration of vulnerability, where the artist uses the medium of collage to represent the layers we wear. Through the use of watercolor and expressive geometric shapes, the work suggests that our outer shells are often as thin and permeable as paper. The interaction of colors creates a sense of movement, hinting at the complex realities that exist just beneath a seemingly simple surface.

The landscape orientation allows the eye to travel across a horizon of abstract concepts, finding points of connection in the shared human experience of fragility. By stripping away representational detail, the artist focuses on the beauty of simplicity and the raw visual communication of feeling. Each shape acts as a word in a larger sentence, inviting a perception that is as much about what is felt as what is seen.

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