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.

  • A Lungful of Air

    A Lungful of Air

    How substances shape the atmosphere of the city and the psyche of its inhabitants

  • 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.

  • Walking Wounded

    Walking Wounded

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

  • Earworm

    Earworm

    Exploring intimacy through ear-touching and whispering.

  • The Subject at Hand

    The Subject at Hand

    A photographic study of hands that emerge from the background of street scenes and become the subject through repetition, attention and sequencing.

  • Nailshop

    Nailshop

    Fingernails as bodily edges where grooming, self-fashioning and social judgment meet.