your spit is my nest
2023
saliva and guar gum on isomalt crystals, standing on sugar coated curtain rods
145x45x10cm
145x45x10cm sculpture and 10 minute live performance, NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Carriageworks with Artspace and Create NSW 2023
12x15x6cm sculpture, Deakin University Art Gallery, Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2023, Highly commended prize.
Your spit is warm as bird's nest, my spit solidifies in the gap between mothers. I make the swallow's nests that you used to feed us with your, and now, my saliva. It rests gently on a sugar bed of my bones. Spitting is outside kissing is an intergenerational feeding is a self-love that binds all of me together.