A large installation of seven separate sculptures from the Vessel series. These include the pieces Babel Spout, Chrysalis, Chibi, Stoma, Larva, Umbilical Sac, and Words like liquid taking the shape of their container. Viewers may inspect, hold, listen, caress, and otherwise interact with the individuals and the greater web.

Given the opportunity not just to observe, but actively interface with the art piece as if it were a living being the viewer projects their emotions upon it and enriches their sense of empathy: if I am treating this odd swelling bundle with such care and tenderness why do I not extend the same kindness to myself? Creating art that is "alive" is to also grant it death, serving as an antithesis to the current landscape in art now where pieces are conserved far past their life span and function as investment assets to be bought and sold, traded and to sit in a warehouse where no one sees them. Stoma and by extension the rest of the Vessels exist for the sake of their actuality: they process, hold themselves up, they emit noise, and they breathe for the sake of doing so until they eventually die, just as we do.

Materials: Handmade rope constructed from deadstock yarn, cassette tapes, and used dental floss which has been dyed with blood and red iron oxide. Individual pieces may also include the following: used bandages, light arrays, esp32 microcontroller, speaker, glass jar, teensy microcontroller, hair, drill battery, flannel, MDO plywood, surgical tubing, saliva, electrical wiring, servo motor, paper pulp rendered from Clarice Lispector novel, and nail polish.