Category: Critique

Untitled (clothes dryer)

Inglis clothes dryer, furniture legs, appliance epoxy, electricity, towels, safety pins, buttons, snaps, juice of broccoli, water, deceased Greenback Blowfly, wet-look glove.

And here’s a little detail from my research document:

Heidi Holmes

Dimensional lumber, bathroom dimensions, goat milk soap, electrical cord, male electrical plugs, acetate, zinc oxide, cod liver oil, horse hair, artist’s hair, found hair, graphite, adhesive, faux ice cube, Nitrile gloves, the amount of blood from the artist’s last menstrual cycle, water, mirror, spackling, eggshell coloured paint, room temperature objective of 26°C (to account for hot flush temperature rise)

2021

Dimensional lumber, bathroom dimensions, goat milk soap, electrical cord, male electrical plugs, acetate, zinc oxide, cod liver oil, horse hair, artist’s hair, found hair, graphite, adhesive, faux ice cube, Nitrile gloves, the amount of blood from the artist’s last menstrual cycle, water, mirror, spackling, eggshell coloured paint, room temperature objective of 26°C.

Unbecoming A Body (Draft)

Water, heat, broccoli, lemon, white vinegar, adzuki beans, stainless steel pots, water bath, portable induction cooktops, pot grime, goats milk soap, rope, polished stone, horse hair, adhesive, Vaseline, underwear, latex, St John’s Wort, extraction fan, looping audio, gel lighting filter.

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As it tingles past your nose hairs and makes its way to your throat, particular memories are summoned; a squashed body on the hottest of trains – dripping with sour sweat and bacon sandwich drippings; scorching quick sex, with slick dirty-nailed fingers and last night’s teeth – followed by a mundane errand like shopping for tomatoes and a monumental celebration shadowed by a hangover so wretched, you couldn’t move.

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Thinking through what might occur in my upcoming critique. This list is evolving:

• A large pot of broccoli and water simmering on an induction burner.
• A medium pot of lemons and water simmering on an induction burner.
• A smaller pot of white vinegar and water simmering on an induction burner.
• A pot with all of these things.
• Or 3 pots with just simmering water.
• A puddle of water that might exist in the corner of the room or in the middle of the room, or under the burners and pots.
• An oil diffuser that has taken on a bodily form.
• A single horse hair in a very long strand, that will touch the surface of the water.
• On the floor, as if just removed, a pair of underwear soaked in St John’s Wort, then dried and dismantled.
• Or a pair of St John’s Wort soaked underwear that have been stiffened and will stand in a wavy sign stand I have.
• Or that hang at vagina height.
• A burnt match.
• Fish oil with lemon.
• A large plastic sheet underneath all of these things.
• Copper tape.
• Heater.
• Spot lighting will highlight each of the elements with a red filter.
• The extraction fan will be on and a sound element will sporadically harmonize with this sound. 
• A dripping sound element.
• Rocks.

Draft (Peri-Menopause) Premarin Edition

Artist hair, horsehair, body measurements, adhesive

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Located on the 4th Floor opposite the Printmaking Workshop

Draft (Peri-Menopause)

Wrapping paper, gouache, ink, the height at which my vagina exists from the earth, standard bathroom mirror height, photographic print (Vaseline, mirror) Vagisil branding, cotton towel, heated towel rack, heat, bath mats, dowel, cotton underwear, St John’s Wort (glycerine capsule), soap dish, looping ambient clothes dryer sounds.