This work explores the feeling of wanting to change “skins” or get rid of a part of your body just as one would change clothes when they are dirty or worn. I was thinking a lot about a shedding of past traumas or past “selves” with this installation. Just as a snake sheds its skin in growth, I want to use latex, a material that mimics human skin, to make this feeling of a shedding or cleansing tangible to the viewer. The contemporary patriarchy tells young girls they need to alter their bodies to be attracted or respected. Therefore, each latex piece is meant to represent an external force altering the body or skin. Using laundry as a metaphor, I am able to make the urge to get rid of the past and start over tangible. A laundry line and laundry basket full of what looks like human flesh evokes an eerie or abject sense of washing the skin. I want to use this installation to reclaim my own agency of my body and call attention to how this patriarchal damage manifests in the body by literally hanging these skins “out to dry.”