Visual Studies / 009

Body & Gesture

Melbourne and New York City

2022–2025

7 images

Oral Intervention

Fleeting, intimate gestures of touching mouths in public spaces.

Oral Intervention follows hands touching or entering mouths in public. The mouth becomes a vulnerable threshold where another person is granted access to the body’s interior.

The gesture can resemble care, examination, play, submission or control. The photographs show permission without explaining motive, allowing incompatible meanings to remain present at once. Repetition turns an odd encounter into a pattern without making it easier to interpret.

The series stays with that ambiguity. A mouth opens, a hand crosses the boundary and trust becomes visible in a form that can also look invasive. Everything beyond the contact remains uncertain.

  • Oral Fixation

    Oral Fixation

    A photographic study of people of all ages touching their mouths, tracing a small, often unconscious gesture repeated across public life.

  • Eye Contact

    Eye Contact

    Exploring the balance of trust, power, and vulnerability in human eye interactions.

  • Hair

    Hair

    Hair explored as a site where personal identity intersects with public space.

  • Intimate Intervention

    Intimate Intervention

    Gestures of touch transforming shared environments into sites of intimacy.

  • Earworm

    Earworm

    Exploring intimacy through ear-touching and whispering.

  • Walking Wounded

    Walking Wounded

    Frailty, resilience, and the complex emotions triggered by witnessing trauma in public spaces.