puncture!
leather-bound book printed on 65lb vellum stock, cinder blocks,
clear acrylic, steel eyebolts, fine iron chain.
2024
combining stark, black and white photography with sparse, poetic text, puncture!
offers a personal meditation on intimacy, spirituality, and the death drive through
a series of sharps play scenes within queer and trans kink community. drawing on
the works of michel foucault and georges bataille, this work sees the breaking of skin
as an act of penetration that not only reveals the instability of the corporeal form, but
one that creates an active rupture in the idea of the self.
hand-bound in soft black leather, the skin that envelops the body of the text is bound
at all corners to a makeshift plinth with fine metal chain. set low to the ground, the installation invites the viewer to kneel before it in an act of intentional, purposeful submission.
limited print run of 100 (available soon).