A man that didn't have betrayal in his heart | 2025 | Metro Arts Artist in Residence, MAVA Substation
Extremity (edge play – to the precipice) to the upper limit of tolerance or distal limbs (the further extent) tumescent pleasure, such ruptured barriers shred limiters, temporary loss of ego opens pathways to a primordial void (dendritic compositions of pigment), suspensory moment. Amongst all this absurdity people are chasing eternity, flesh falling away into environmental merger.
​(With successive showings) the tech crew would be given glue to repair any damages, the belief, the glue (adherence - bond) is stronger than the materials being adhered.
(Wood glue in furniture making)
(Complete destruction) then a pink replacement would be cast, allowing chance to designate compositional choice much in the way the forms were contrived. Evidence to their injury, a catalogue of sorts for when these break through moments occur.
(Conceptual basis in fragility)  what do the mistakes do? Instead of ignoring their appearance. Agency in error, activating surface based on pain. Ruptures in strength, then are filled / reforged.
Shift from inert surfaces (women or partners as inert material stimuli for the erotic into agentive pathways). Offshoots of the channel where desires bloom, (grounding diffuses violent force) – exerted on the self, allows growth. (pole work)
Dominance as omnipotence - encasing - walls that surround, an entity in the darkened geography of the mind.
In these terms, Fetish as a practice is a dialogical epistemology, directed by desire it interleaves pathos and logos. Working from the position of fetishist/animist, the volition that this libidinal investment imbues oscillates between the materials and the subject. Being a conversation between top and bottom, it acknowledges the osmotic nature of this threshold, the transference of power cyclical until realised. In terms of a BDSM power hierarchy, it would be considered making like a ‘switch’.
(Gypsium) ​crystalline basis of high compression creating a tensile strength with reduced moisture intake. Bed casts in pre-drafted recesses of perspex, where the initial laying down of dry mica pigment is then compelled by the forces of drip pours into faux stone surface. Gesture, surface friction, and fluid rate translate into an array of branching composition or diffused discolouration, likened to markers on flesh surface, muscle contusions, the bruising of impact trauma. Violence of the action, poetic material translation detail the beauty and purpose of its execution.
(Bad Casting) Physical being, encasing qualities of the animistic persona – a kind of bad casting – the distracted misconnect between bodies and paracosm. One feels a mis-cast in their own erotic scenario, material regard. Where pleasure’s culmination in the sharp rupture of pain, is  the only buoyant  reprieve.
(Imperfections, dirt, grit and viscera) marble undergoing metamorphism, compression, heat and pressure where calcite crystallise into crystalline rock. Irregularities in the strata’s sedimentary surface  (fossils [past experiences, fears, trauma remnants]  and matter [desire, bodily fixation and taboos] ) crystallise into veins and whorls of distinction, not dissimilar to a pearl. The root of the irritant is glossed, compressed and pressurised into an allure. (Substrate) – limestone - marble. (Limestone) pre-metamorphic material, harbours porosity to distil another’s essence, purify. Where the sedimentary remnants occur as the particle indications of seepage. Material markers indicator of dual processing.
(Plaster as bone setter) immobilizing emotional apparatus, rigid structure holds the injury (old trauma) in place until correct alignment.
(Material based in the simulate) to replicate - the lexicon of fetishisms habit towards substitution.
Speleothems, distended growth patterns of limestone geography, one material then morphs into infinite formation, distillation leaving markers. An analogy about potential of unrefined and untended material, alongside the formative potential of shared consensual pain to build desire that is grounding and generative. Typically, architecturally designated terminology, (dripstones, flow stones, pool deposits and pore deposits - columns, straws, curtaining). Entangled nature of dually tended desires, action impressing upon drives and forces of personality and ego between participants.
​If you thought of harnessing/a harness as a shape - a conduit for the flow of power - it is not restrictional but directional. So when we speak of leather as a garment, it is a form that creates a track for action by instating physical parameters while erasing all behavioural unencessity. Applicable in husbandry - but the allure is in overt behavioural manipulation - which accents the interplay of existent relationship dynamics. The hierarchy of penetrative mammalian sex (what we conceive as the norm) is punctuated and elevated to eroticised dramatisation. One a receptive surface and the other the active force, bodily cues for contortion at the anchorage point of a leather band.
Merger of flesh in the internal scape of released or realised pleasure. Formation, alignment of purpose enacts anchorage, what appears disorient is elevate growth. Affiliation is conducive too.
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