April 2024
//Produced during Peter Power's Introduction to Screenprinting
//Ink on two 2ft x 2ft steel plates
//Produced during Peter Power's Introduction to Screenprinting
//Ink on two 2ft x 2ft steel plates
"DOUBLE*EDGED"
Background
An early experiment that would eventually turn into "Touched For The Very First Time," "DOUBLE*EDGED" is a series of 2 mirrored plates that share the same illustration
printed on the back. There are two figures, two 2ftx2ft plates, and 2 colors alongside red accents. The text on each plate is prose written about the feeling of
dystopian isolation post-sexual-assault. "DOUBLE*EDGED (1)," being the primarily silver plate, has prose about a robot observing the writer, slowly injecting a
fluid into the writer's body, which slows their breathing, ending with the phrase, 'it will all be over soon.' "DOUBLE*EDGED (2)" has prose featuring the writer
fantasizing about the utilitarian nature of a body as sustenance, and the image of cybernetic sharks thrashing and fighting over their body as it falls into a
steel sea.
| DOUBLE*EDGED (1).
I lie awake being eaten alive.
there's a surveyor on top of me, and I'm strapped to its examination table. I don't remember how I got rhere, but it's time to be gracious.
it drips its sticky saliva into my throat, paralyzing my body and instantly rusting my internal mechanics to a halt.
my breathing involuntarily slows.
i feel the sharp point of a foreign needle begin to prick deep into my body.
it will all be over soon.
I lie awake being eaten alive.
there's a surveyor on top of me, and I'm strapped to its examination table. I don't remember how I got rhere, but it's time to be gracious.
it drips its sticky saliva into my throat, paralyzing my body and instantly rusting my internal mechanics to a halt.
my breathing involuntarily slows.
i feel the sharp point of a foreign needle begin to prick deep into my body.
it will all be over soon.
| DOUBLE*EDGED (back).
| DOUBLE*EDGED (2).
It's all so fucking overwhelming.
all of it.
i'm struggling to grasp anything anymore.
i stare into the sea of metal wildlife wondering how long my body could sate them all. I wonder if it would hurt castille; if seeing rubber and steel and glass gnaw at what was once my body would garner a reaction.
I fall from the view into the the ocean as my dna splashes against their cold bodies, and they begin to fight over my soft organic tissue in a way that castille probably never would have.
in the summer i look at a man and his friend. He's young, fit, attractive, and likes to kick box. I want to inhabit his body.
It's all so fucking overwhelming.
all of it.
i'm struggling to grasp anything anymore.
i stare into the sea of metal wildlife wondering how long my body could sate them all. I wonder if it would hurt castille; if seeing rubber and steel and glass gnaw at what was once my body would garner a reaction.
I fall from the view into the the ocean as my dna splashes against their cold bodies, and they begin to fight over my soft organic tissue in a way that castille probably never would have.
in the summer i look at a man and his friend. He's young, fit, attractive, and likes to kick box. I want to inhabit his body.
| A photo from 'DOUBLE*EDGED's' first showing at Comfort Station's SCAFFOLD in April of 2024.
| A photo from 'DOUBLE*EDGED's' first showing at Comfort Station's SCAFFOLD in April of 2024.