CAUL

The Caul is the delicate membrane that encases the fetus. In many cultures, to be born in an unbroken caul is to be marked as endowed with supernatural powers or to bring luck.

"For me this series of Caul images has a special meaning.
There is the texture of the Caul itself. When it touches the body it merges with it, becoming invisible....one with the subject. Where the subjects movement or gesture has drawn the material away from the body, it seems to me an extension of the skin, as if the human spirit were trying somehow to burst its physical bonds."
In his Caul Series, Len Steckler explores the very timid, secret, and always private human soul, through the confines of the translucent embryonic membrane.