Drawing of Skin

Fumi Abe

2024
31×40.5㎝ pencil on paper 2024

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◆"Drawing of Skin"

I had weak skin since I was small.

Atopy, rough hands, chapping, pimples, and small cuts, my skin was always tingling.

The wound seemed to be screaming with its mouth widly open.

Or was it my heart that was really tingling?

I scratched and ruined the scab repeatedly, but each time the scab covers the wound and created the new skin again and again.

Countless lines can be seen here.

Again and again, as if I am scratching a piece of paper, I draw a line, I erase it, and even the marks of the eraser become a line.

It is like as if I am scratching a scab.

Draw a line, erase it, draw a line, erase it, I repeat it over and over again.

There I found a mind-boggling amount of destruction and rebirth.