Hair Symposium

No material is more intimate, immediate, or incendiary than human hair. Materially speaking it is fairly simple: strands of dead cells anchored in living follicles, the lengths composed mainly of keratin protein, the same stuff that’s in fingernails and feathers. We all have hair sprouting all over us, in varied quantity, quality, color, and disposition. In these happenstance details, and in the ways that we manage this ever-growing resource of our bodies, lie untold personal hopes and vanities.