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This work considers inversions of domestic labor, feminine costume, fragility, endurance, and destruction. A dresser, filled with flour equal to the combined weight of our bodies, becomes a metaphor for both sustenance and burden, echoing the weight of mortality.
Pushed through an exterior space, the dresser—a domestic object typically tied to preservation and order—begins to fracture. We dismantle it further, scattering its contents until the flour dissolves into the air, leaving no trace, as though the act itself never occurred.
Here, the body is sustenance and burden, endurance and fragility. These bodies push their own weight in a meditation on mortality. Sustenance materializes into a body that inevitably returns to dust.
Rin Peisert and Elena Katsulis
