Simon Marsiglia

📖So I came across this leather jacket a while back. The person who was trying to pass it on had left one image on the last slide where light was shining through a window hitting the jacket at just the right angle, that gave me a hint of what it was capable of. It was really catching the light like nothing I had ever seen before. Now it lives in my house. When you keep it indoors it really just looks like a black patent leather jacket however when you bring it outside it reflects the sunlight and glows in an array of deep browns. It took me a while to figure out that it is made out of eel leather. When you examine the jacket closely you can make out every single eel sacrificed to create this patchwork mirror. It’s a horrifying beautiful sunset

First Light (2025)
oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm

Shown in ’Gargoyles’ At @amsterdam.warehouse

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