video. 2:41. (2017).

scratch interrogates the relationship between self-reliance and self-care. This piece is a performed ritual that was motivated my my isolation in a new place. When I found an unknown rash on my body, I realized I was thousands of miles away from anyone I knew well enough to ask for help treating places on my body that I couldn’t reach myself. Cycles of soothing and irritation closely entwine each other in this two-channel piece.