P A C K A G I N G T H E S E L F

Hannah Beth Raisin

When external environment is removed is clothing an aesthetic object separate from the body it encases or does it protect and enhance the human form? A central concern is not only the clothes that cover our bodies but the bodies we recover under our clothes? are we not still dressed in our bodies, In the way we speak, walk, hold ourselves, our hair, skin and nails. If one was to be undressed, but still 'wearing' these extensions of self are we not still packaging ourselves in the same way as we do when we wear clothes?

Phillip Toledano (2004)

Michael Burton