Skin Contact

As an artist, I was never really good at technical drawing, painting, or anything that required a delicate touch. However I was never short of creative ideas or concepts. AI image softwares are praised and reprimanded every day now. Ive seen them referred to as, the devil, sky-net, nerdy as hell, thievery, somehow it is all those things to some, but to me it is just another tool in a long line of human ingenuity. Everyone forgets synthesizer players would get tomahawks thrown at them in its early days of music adaptation, now you cant find a song without one. When I think of man's "tools", I think in the sense of how monkey's dipping sticks in sap, then into bug holes, turned into guns that can be used to fight wars for ideologies in what could be considered a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. A tool is a tool, in the sense of when you want the job done, you get it done in the most humanely way possible, the most convenient. These pieces come from trial and error of me trying to use the latest medium to capture moments in time I've experienced. Here in SF, there is a thriving subculture centered around "Natural Wines" and vibrant atmospheres to drink them. I like to think of it as our generations "Absinthe and Chill" moment! Unifying people to try these "Lofi Wine's" in close quarter spaces, bumping shoulders with other people in the here and now, a fantastic moment in time that can leave as fast as its arrived. Thats where the name "Skin Contact" comes from, in most of these wine bars I've gone to, similar themes arise centered around music, temperature, atmosphere, conversation, all things to be considered when we flock to shared spaces. Theres something generationally magnetizing about "Native Yeasts", "Volatile Acidity", and "Spontaneous Fermentation" that speaks to the absurdity of the now and the humans who habit it. In the same way people view art "back then", I hope humans in whatever form they may be in the future can look to whats happening now and point a finger and say "this was a special moment in time".