Second skin, as the name denotes has to do with appearances, yet the secondary position indicates something beyond the superficial. At a physical level, we embrace our environment, wearing light clothes in warm weather and bundling up in freezing temperature. There are customs that originate from a necessity, social, religious or economic in every place. How much of our cultural making such as clothing, tattoo, jewelry etcetera, serve to preserve self-identity and when do they become baggage inherited from antiquated customs and directives? What degree of adaptation allows assimilation and when does it become appropriation.
Making of the Second Skin
