This process extends into the room itself. A stool offers a step into a dry birth pool. The pool holds a tension between familiarity and separation: a place associated with entering the world becomes a place to reflect on how we belong to it. A microfiber cloth and Windex spray draw attention to the screen’s needs, inviting care for something usually understood as an object.
Slide brings the uncertain boundary between the self and background into a physical encounter. The effort to understand the anonymous “I” becomes a way of returning to ourselves and rethinking what it means to be oneself and to recognize a self in another.