“Pull the Plug”
My piece for the Beyond the Boundaries online show on @undertowprojects on instagram.
This piece is a conversation of our bodies and discarded materials that make their way into the ocean. A tale of pollution and mirrored domesticity. The phrase ‘Pull the Plug’ means to stop something from happening, allowing something to escape or fall through. A plug inside the sink gathers all the food debris so it doesn’t clog the drain. A plug in the bath allows the water to fill up so we can wash ourselves, it harbours our discarded cells of the body. A plug is the opening between the domestic space and the systems below that transport our discarded materials to other spaces, often back to the ocean. Of course, the contaminated water remnants from the drains are treated first but tiny particles of ourselves goes through all the systems and filters to end up in the grander scheme of the world, in this ocean, just floating around waiting. This piece of an extra-large plug thinks about the larger discarded parts of our bodies especially in COVID-19 times but also what’s clogged up inside and where we end up in the grander scheme of the world.
This piece being a video of the plug at the beach, waves approaching it but with the added sounds of the domestic bathtub plug draining. The gurgling and swishing sounds of the water draining out of the tub create a conversation with the waves and they speak to each other in chaos but also in harmony.
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