Pillow Talk
Clay, glaze, rope, metal fixtures, bedside table and found objects.
Pillow Talk is a ceramic installation work which is expressly asexual in methodology - attentive to “asexual resonances, moments, touches, or textures” (Przybylo, E., & Cooper, D. 2014. Asexual Resonances). Referencing the form and surface of Chinese ceramic pillows, the sculptures explore queer desire for kinship outside of heteronormative, sexual and romantic definitions. The ceramics are non-linear - multiple - in flux, they hold within them an expression of tenderness - frustration - intimacy - rejection - love.
With this work, I am wondering how asexuality can imagine different ways of connecting, of ways that are messier and that are so many things at once. We can describe these connections in parts, in the warmth we feel – we don’t have to explain away these connections with a single noun.
Exhibited in KIN, 2023, curated by Rainer Ciar, PARI, Burramattagal Land – Parramatta
Images Courtesy: Document Photography
Image Courtesy - Mei Lin Meyers