“My brain is built of playdough. My body is too. That squishy, sticky modeling clay I knew so well as a child. I built people and houses and animals and flowers in different colours and then I smooshed them up to build something else. Once I built a heart inside of myself and made it beat for someone, and then things between us got icky-sticky so my inner God-hands came in to smoosh it up for me to build a new one. It hurt. But there’s no creativity without destruction. So let the darlings die. Break down, to break through, to build something new. “

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The “playdough” in this shot is actually flour, water and food colouring, mixed the night before shooting. The process of creating these videos opened an inventive side in me, and I love how the end product, to me, looks kind of like playdough and kind of like flesh. It feels light and playful, and dark at the same time.