Aloe Corry: Loose Limbs

For the series, Loose Limbs, artist Aloe Corry draws wounded and fragmented bodies, vulnerable to the inevitability of mortality and the tension between wounds and mending. Using the language of a tree as a metaphor for the human form, Corry looks to the ways both the environment and the body are both “vulnerable to outside forces.” With deep red backgrounds, the blue outlined figures appear like exoskeletal otherworldly creatures—walking disembodied limbs, ribbed legs stumbling, arms growing out of a root ball of abstraction, torsos twisting like tree trunks, hinged jaws opening wide stacked on vertebrate bones. Surreal and uncanny, the twisted anatomies move, functioning wholly independently within a world of magic realism.