Thick Skin is an exercise in the perception of image and volume (a confrontation of subject and sculptural object) using advanced fabrication and imagining technologies. Our design is a large, monolithic object, that takes inspiration from the Earth Artist Michael Heizer’s lifelong interest in the marriage of photographs of the natural landscape and the material presence of massive geological fragments. Our installation is sited in the A+D courtyard; an intervention in the L.A. Arts District.