Squeeze, Sammie Jane Hardewig

My practice reimagines the life of discarded interior latex house paints. Using mainly mistints and repurposed pigments, I harden the paint into freestanding forms, removing it from its intended skeletal wall structure. The paint has a life of its own, a body of its own, and creates a skin of its own. Both skin and paint protect, cover, contain, excrete, and decorate the homes we live in. I look to create parallels between the paint and our bodies to address the vulnerability of the human existence while allowing the material its own level of agency in its newfound life.