Disintegration/The Cure is an immersive, multimedia installation that encourages healing and acceptance through creative self-care.
Inspired by problematic, high-stakes performance art and my personal experience with mental illness and physical disability, Disintegration/The Cure subverts my compulsive behaviors through fixed, methodical artmaking processes. In this project, I film myself taking a shower—a mundane action performed obsessively—by encasing an endoscopic camera within a bar of soap. Separately, materials such as dye, mica, and glitter are used to make two thousand bars of soap. The video performance and accumulation of soap bars are brought together through projection and a scented sculptural installation that invites viewers to confront the intimate, honest realities of illness, coping, and physicality in a way that could seemingly swallow them whole.