Materials used to cleanse and substrate - soap, bleach, tube whites, gesso - here become present and sculptural. The soap forms evoke living and touch behavior, bleach “rots” fabric, and gesso is used to extrude and eroticize. These flips play with divisions of living and sterile, natural and aesthetic.

As queer expressions, the work explores hygienic perception (nose thinking) in the scope of identity and the psychosocial world. It plays off the internal contradictions of “purity” and its imaginary content.

Here is a collision of social and germ theories, where the ideal and the living produce a relational affect.