Shoving The Cat Back In hypha-hq the tacit motions of hands

the tacit motions of hands and arms that serve as non-verbal signals for more and less when drinks are poured in bars

Flavours of Exile was inspired by a short story of the same name by Doris Lessing

and how these operate in relation to our personal and collective fantasies

This piece is from a small series from 2024 called Fugue State

It is a cast of brown bear claws taken from the specimen at the Tatra Museum in Zakopane that are incorporated into casts of my fingers and toes

Shoving The Cat Back In hypha-hq the tacit motions of handsA hand reaches out toward the black cat, is it emerging from or being swallowed into the mouth? Its posture is tense and stubborn, unwilling to be pushed in (again). The female figure's mouth is fleshy and cavernous, lined with crimson teeth, comically grotesque in its wide, gaping form. Yellow and cream marks explode upward from this tree or bodily shape, suggesting flames, froth, or ejaculation, a celebration! something both fertile and violent.