i will always take care of you.

Call it a morbid curiosity. 

Multiple surgeries to correct a broken nose, metal plates and screws were inserted to correct a broken ankle, followed by the removal of the metal when it started to push out fostered an interest in the inventive yet disturbing tools of the trade. The same instruments used to heal and repair are also used in spy thrillers and horror films as instruments of torture. To see them out of context they feel cold, cruel, sharp, and yet erotic. I started collecting expired medical equipment- everything from chest retractors to the equipment needed to perform a self-endoscopy.

I felt like these tools did so much to keep me alive- they pulled back skin here, stopped the hemorrhaging there, and exposed potential cancer. These tools needed to be kept safe and adored, revered as reliquaries. This series directly connects the long blunt tool used to reset a nose to the bone filled reliquaries of Catholicism? The crocheted white yarn around the tools preserves, protects, softens, and evokes hue of bone; all the while leaving the sharp bits free, for self-defense.