In my work, the theme of skin and its impermanence has always been a constant -- starting from the use of wax in painting, to create a textural body, which then emerged from the canvas to the elastic skin of a model I collaborated with and photographed for 7 years until his death. I am now continuing with these themes of impermanence while relating them to women's issues regarding aging, "ideal beauty", sexuality, eternal youth, and cosmetic surgery. I am also inspired by African sculpture, ritual objects and painting references.

For many years I was working with latex and vinyl in the form of sheet latex or fragments of Halloween masks -- very tactile and sensuous mediums in which to convey impressions of skin and flesh. With these materials I was able to reference aging, deformities, discolorations, decay and exaggerated features as they are used to create the "horrific".

The use of hair seemed to be a natural progression from the skin and relates to the impermanence theme by being the most "permanent" and lasting, but tangenital part of the body. The hair which is what remains after a body has decomposed. The hair is what starts to turn grey with the onset of the aging process, yet is eternal.

Janice Sloane 2011