Afternoon Tea
Digging into the roots of ANT (Actor-Network Theory). The pedestal is cast pewter, the stem a medical model of a brain stem turned upside down, the dome a sawn-off repurposed Indian ceremonial bell, split in two.
Flippable plates with inverted patterns, one for rich one for poor. The work questions the rituals of class, the performance of civility, and the hierarchies embedded in domestic objects.
Tea time as a site of both connection and exclusion. The brain stem suggests that our social behaviors are as hardwired as our biology.