The new creations for the ‘Beneath the Skin, She’s Body’ series, unlike her earlier works made of undyed fabric, are submerged in color - crimson red, brilliant yellow, violet, or purple. Some works feature currents of greens, yellows, and purples flowing effortlessly one into the other.
An exuberant carnival of colors, shapes, knobs, and bulges. Myriads of them seem to be repeating themselves, and yet no two are alike. They grow and sprawl like cell division, corals, seashells, jellyfish with short tentacles and longer stinging arms. Lin’s colorful cotton membrane of twirls and pleats seems to transport us to the magnificent underwater world, the womb and heart of the planet where life started to pulsate eons of years ago. Taking us on a deep dive into the ocean, she likens the underwater world to the strong currents of blood that run through women’s bodies, to the streams of feminine energy that are life-giving. The She’s Body series is an initiation that rises out of women’s innate psychology and physicality, out of the powerful feminine principles that stand behind the matrix of creation, that births children, shapes lands, tends to our homes, protects, encourages, and forgives, builds, instills hope, makes new, breathes fresh starts, gives grace, bears burdens, scarifies and lives in a way that heals.