NICU Pump, 2026
2026
sculpture, installation
8' x 7' x 8' approx., dimensions variable
pantyhose, yarn, fake fur, inflated PVC, wire, silicone nipples, oxygen tubes, fringe, thread
NICU Pump hangs at the center of Neonatal Boudoir as the installation’s circulatory organ — a suspended, bulbous body of inflated translucent membranes stretched in pantyhose and threaded with red and blue vein-lines, its upper chambers swollen like compound eyes or paired hearts. From its underside, yellow plasma-strands drip toward the floor: nutrient feed for the crèches beyond. Segmented tendrils branch outward and down, terminating in tufts of pink synthetic fur and oozing puddles of red yarn — lines that snake toward the other incubated bodies in the chamber. Part organ, part chandelier, part vascular machine, it sustains the colony it tends. It enacts Kristeva’s abject maternal — the nourishing body whose fluids erase the line between self and offspring, care and consumption.
