Dermatillomania

Charlotte Day-Smith

Dermatillomania is a condition related to obsessive-compulsive disorder. It is characterized by repeated picking at ones own skin, resulting in skin lesions and causing significant disruption to one’s life. This video documents my attempt to better understand my experience with this condition by using objects and materials as surrogates for my own body.

Day-Smith_Charlotte_Headshot - Charlotte Day-Smith.jpeg — Charlotte Day-Smith, TYL BFA ‘20
Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA
Website: www.charlottedaysmith.com
IG: @chardayglass

Charlotte Day-Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is driven by a life-long fascination with the natural world and it’s relationship to conscious experience. Her recent work focuses primarily on perceptual illusions and the fundamental nature of reality. Charlotte earned her BFA in Glass from Tyler School of Art, and is now working out of Philadelphia, PA.
Image credit: Emily Doerflein