Skinning, with Mack McFarland, PNCA, 2015

Being with a space as curator is a bit like an extramarital affair from your home.  An intimacy arises, one that in some ways you may not have expected or even desired.  Knowing a space too well can result in not seeing it anew, its mysteries discovered, turning potentiality into predictability.  One may imagine that this is what sex is like with a partner of 30 plus years.  So then there comes a time to have an intervention, to act (irrationally?) upon the relationship. Skinning could be the equivalent of high school sweethearts turned 60 taking up ballroom dancing or BDSM. Skinning is as much homage to the Commons as it is an affront to it. Though we are exposing the bones and unseen spaces hidden in plain sight, we are too peeling away at the mental block that we all grown accustomed to by simply passing through and sitting in the cavernous space of the Commons.