Helping Hand

        “The world is a Braille book

for the sighted. The world accepts

being read. Touch, which is in the fingers, is

the hinge on which we swing, in and out

of sensation. We swim

in irritation.”

                  -       from “Postcards” by Kascha Semonovitch

Touch is incredibly important in helping us understand the world and our place in it. In “Helping Hand,” I rhythmically pick pieces of rice from a dirty pot and throw them into soapy dishwater. The grotesqueness of doing the dishes is consequently emphasized by the sound the rice makes upon hitting the water and the video's voyeuristic “surveillance camera” point of view. All over the world, at this very moment, dishes taunt from oily water, scraps of food scream in garbage disposals, and egg-crusted pans resist the helping hand.