scum serenade

By Tyler Mitchell

Cicada emerging

american cockroach - catherine chalmers (2004)

Daikichi Amano

Eirik Johnson - BORDERLANDS

Enfants Riches Déprimés spring 2023

mantis mouthparts source

Teresa Margolles, Vaporization, 2002 — a room filled with disinfected water vapor from cleaning bodies in morgues in Mexico City — part of the exhibition Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, MOMA PS1, Queens

examples of the less dead include sex workers, addicts, migrant workers, refugees, AIDS patients, the homeless, victims of conflict on foreign soil… in vaporization, viewers are invited to walk among fog created from water that cleansed the lesser dead. their presence fills your nose, your mouth, your ears, dampens your clothes and coats your skin. the separation between you and them ceases to be. horror is in proximity made visible and the broken taboo of intimate touch by the ‘unclean’.