Here are your chosen contestants for Built:Skyn Deep 2014 in conjunction with Apl.de.Ap Foundation!

Re-Union
Chicago, IL USA

This work explores the issues of boundaries and separation. With natural disasters, global environmental degradation, and ongoing conflicts, the charged intensity of different forces explore notions of vulnerability of existing within a group or at the margins of a group.

Built to Live and Love
Cicero, IL USA

Without life in your soul nothing can be built and you need love and dedication to achieve your goals. Many amazing leaders, inventors and artists envision greatness and achieve it; however there is always an end so a new cycle of believers and dreamers can have their turn.

Rebuilt the Future
Berlin, Germany

The Idea behind the Design is that many hands e.g. people with different skills can rebuild the future as a great team. The attributes also represent what it is supported in people by rebuilding the Philippines.

PooGetter Blueprint
San Francisco, CA USA

Poogetter blueprint for you to oogle at.

Who You Are
Brooklyn, NY USA

Who you are as a person is not just because you’re born with it but it’s something that is built as you go through life. All the things around you (such as what‘s written in the background of the piece) contribute to who you are today and what you want to be. You may have been born in the countryside or in the city but these doesn't identify the person that you are. However, one thing remains for certain that you will always be under one sun while you move forward and build the best version of yourself.

BUILD a New LIFE
Yekaterinburg, Russia

Little brother and sister who have no home, saw the built far from them and went to a place where it is located with the hope of finding a new home.

Rebuilding a Signification
Brasilia Distrito Federal, Brazil

When we help to rebuild something, it isn't only to remake what was destroyed, but to also bring back a bit of hope to their lives.

Itayo
Manila, Philippines

Babayin is the ancient Filipino script. Looking to the past to get inspiration for the future is one way to connect the dots to your roots. Filipinos have long assimilated to western ideologies, but preserving culture has always been an important part of identifying the important aspects of what makes you-you.

Building Blocks
Tokyo, Japan

Video games, like Tetris, have always inspired my art. Living in Japan, where design and creativity at the minute level are the building blocks of our society, identity is sculpted and perfected daily to build a strong & distinctive culture.