G’pa’s House Work

This project looks at:

Interspecies care
Cosy horrors
Shared abjections
Domestic environmentalism

My grandpa didn’t do housework. This work comes from cleaning his house and thinking about different kinds of housework after he fell and moved into a care home. It looks at human life as part of different ecosystems around one home and new possibilities of living with other life.

1. Kitchen Work: Food Babies

Food baby 1, 2022, collaged cherryade, grapefruit and pomegrate with feotus.

Food baby 2, 2022, collaged spaghetti, orange and squid with feotus.

Food baby 4, 2022, collaged haribo, bolognese and cherries with feotus.

Food baby 9, 2022, collaged spaghetti, cherryade and orange with feotus.

Harvestime (Safe Ways to Hold a Baby), Cradle Hold, 2022.

Harvestime (Safe Ways to Hold a Baby), Rugby Ball Hold, 2022

Harvestime (Safe Ways to Hold a Baby), Face-to-face Hold, 2022.

2. Bathroom Work: Rivers of Slime

Rivers of Slime, 2022, installation.

Fertilisation, 2022. Screenshot from a Mickey Mouse animation:
The cow becomes a toadstool and the hay becomes manure.

Rivers of Slime, 2022, installation detail.

Fertilisation, 2022. The cowshroom opens wide.

Rivers of Slime, 2022, installation detail.

Fertilisation, 2022.
The manure plunges in.

Rivers of Slime, 2022, installation detail.

Fertilisation, 2022.
In it goes.

Rivers of Slime, 2022, installation detail.

Fertilisation, 2022.

New growth.

Rivers of Slime, 2022, installation detail.

Fertilisation, 2022.
New shroom.

Rivers of Slime, 2022, installation detail.

Fertilisation, 2022. Happy mushroom, happy cow.

3. Beauty Work: Family Vanity

Family Vanity, 2022. Installation detail.
This installation combines make up owned by my family into new
genetically-based foundation, blush and lipsticks to look at cosmetic ancestry.