<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[shape+colour]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Jeremy]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/author/shapeandcolour/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[lucy mcrae + mandy smith: chlorophyll&nbsp;skin.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Exploring the evolutionary and mutational possibilities when converging art, science, and the human body, I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of the body dysmophic works of <a href="http://lucymcrae.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Lucy McRae</span></a> and Bart Hess for quite a while now. See past posts <a href="https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/lucy-mcrae-bart-hess-lucyandbart/"><span style="color:#ff6600;">here</span></a> and <a href="https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/update-from-lucyandbart/"><span style="color:#800080;">here</span></a>.</p>
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<p>For an installation at Amsterdam Fashion Week in July, McRae teamed up with <a href="http://www.mandysmithwork.com/Mandy_Smith/Home.html"><span style="color:#00ff00;">Mandy Smith</span></a> to create &#8220;Chlorophyll Skin&#8221;, an &#8220;experimentation into color, movement, absorption and the body.&#8221; The results are eerie; reptilian yet human, familiar yet alien, chromatic yet a little grotesque.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t hurt that they&#8217;ve set it to Fever Ray&#8217;s &#8220;When I Grow Up&#8221;, a sensational song with an <a href="https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/fever-ray-martin-de-thurrah-when-i-grow-up/"><span style="color:#ff00ff;">equally sensational video</span></a>.</p>
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