These painting were produced on panels from used furniture. When I stopped breastfeeding my first son, I wanted to use my frozen, leftover milk in an artwork. I had stored shiny black motor-oil as a patina from a previous project and decided to mix the two antinomic liquids together. The milk and oil formed a colloid, refusing to mix and creating random patterns that sprawled out across the painted surface. By adding paint, glues, and varnishes to the works, I was able to stabilize the forms in a kind of suspended motion.
The monochrome artworks bring together two wet materials with very different connotations; a bodily secretion intended to nourish babies and polluted industrial runoff from internal combustion engines. The title of the artwork refers to the uneasy cohabitation between our bodies and materials (cars, chemicals) that both extend and inhibit human life.
Universes in Universes, 2019, 6 panels, 110 cm x 30 cm each, breast milk, motor oil, and mixed media on plywood panel.