Artwork description: Installation of torso's or skin t-shirts. Every skin looks differently. It tells us something about our origin, our age, what we have been through or who we want to be. This social function of the skin and it’s story inspires me. Skin, its appearance, usually is the first people notice and stereotypes you, regardless of who you are, what you think or feel. That makes us either vulnerable or strong and resilient. To me, glass is a material with many possibilities. It houses more facets than you can see at first sight. Depending on how you process it, glass is very fragile and vulnerable, but it can also be very hard and strong and be viewed as either transparent or opaque. These are characteristics that I look for in skins and it has inspired me to translate skin into glass and to express the opacity of the skin combined with the transparency of glass. Using my artistic work, I want to invite people to crawl into another skin, wear it as a T-shirt and experience how the outside world looks at you. To feel where vulnerability or strength of the other can be found. To search for the real human being behind the skin and to discover his or her real story. My objects are made using the “Pâte de verre“ technique. This glass looks vulnerable yet is is very strong. Also, this technique offers more options to experiment with and search for my own use of glass. For my graduation project I researched the use of colouring transparent glass searching for a way to emphasize different skin colours and skin conditions.