“Tabula Rasa” is an installation that materializes an alternate space for imaginative freedom through pleather. I sewed brandless bottles and soaps with pleather to propose a speculative world without product placement. The neutrality of the environment questions the effect that advertisements have when encroaching on liminal spaces such as the shower: a space I experience as the threshold between physical reality and cerebral dreamscape. I sewed the structure of the shower with fabric to form a soft and malleable sculpture that further questions the bounds of reality.


The accompanying video, in which I performatively activate the installation, portrays moments of contemplative silence and dissociation through my interactions with the soap and bubbles. The womb-like isolated space is almost a fictional terrarium in which to detach from a stimulus-dominant reality and reconnect with myself.