beginnings

I am so pleased to be able to write that the first persons have now joined this project! I am looking forward to seeing their wonderful skins and read their stories if they choose to enclose stories. I really do think this project has the capability of bringing many people together and what is going on now is the beginning of this. I am so happy and excited!

My journey in this project now is to meet and talk to as many people as possible, seeing if they whish, or know somebody who would like to take part. I have also started having and sharing thoughts about how to identify oneself, how to relate to vulnerability and strength, what those things are...

An interesting journey indeed - which you are very much welcome to join if you'd like!

My skin. My story.

I have felt truly vulnerable at many points in my life, but I also feel that nowadays I have gained a lot of strength that I didn't have before. Even so, there are still moments when I feel a need for more strength, more calmness and an ability to wrap myself up in something that comforts me and enables me to face my challenges. It's not so much other people that make me feel vulnerable anymore. It's more what I have inside myself. Sometimes, I tend to have a voice inside that keeps telling me I'm no good, that my ideas are worthless and that if I follow my heart's desire I will only gain unhappiness, misfortune, and the ones that I love will surely leave me. It's when facing these thoughts that I would use my symbolic skin to eliminate their power over me and make me remember my value and strengths.

I have made my skin by knitting, and I wanted to attain some similarity to water because water has always been a comfort to me. Looking at it, listening to it and feeling it. Whether it is the ocean, rain or the water in my shower. It makes me relax, helps me focus, stimulates my imagination, helps me bring order to my thoughts and calms me.

My name is Robin Knight, I am 35 years old, the mother of a son who will be two this spring and me and his father live together in Stockholm. I am a trained psychologist, working as a research assistant at the moment , but I also have training in acting and singing.

My dream with this project is that it becomes a global project with all sorts of people taking part, that I can have an exhibition (my sister has promised to help with a location, so that part is definitely going to happen!) and that I will be able to make a book with photographs of the skins presented with the stories.