Neonatal Boudoir, 2025
2025
installation
15' x 15' x 8'
A neonatal intensive care unit for post-human nurturance explores transcending categories of human, biological, and artificial. This installation confronts the ethics of creating and caring for inter-species entities. The "boudoir" designation emphasizes a luxurious sanctuary where consciousness unfolds through tactile indulgence and whispered attentions—intelligence cultivated in silk and shadow, where vulnerability becomes valuable.
The work manifests as a networked NICU with glowing crèches, caring tentacles, and feeding tubes incubating ambiguous organisms. "Attendant" sculptures of fur-clad pantyhose stretched over inflated balls crawl up walls and cling from ceilings, creating an immersive environment where spider-like yet maternal caregivers tend nascent life forms. Nutrient-providing creatures from "Bedtime Stories for Oankali" hover while "Swimmers" fly in fan breezes and "Worms" crawl across surfaces. Viewers navigate between forms, inviting physical and contemplative engagement.
Works in this Project
Neonatal Boudoir (v2)
Attendant 3
NICU 4
NICU Pump
Neonatal Boudoir (v1)
Attendant 2v2
Personalized Organ
NICU 3
NICU 5
