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Splitting

By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/lucybrown" title="Lucy Brown" class="inline font-bold underline transition-opacity duration-100 hover:opacity-50 focus:opacity-50"> Lucy Brown </a> 2025

Soap has and bathed the human body for thousands of years. Hair has always been part of this personal ritual, either embodied or dis-embodied.  Together; melted, poured and solidified, soap and hair become a repulsive viewing. Stranded, entwined and in the action of splitting, a limbo anxious state surfaces.

Pouring hair ball 2021 1731422577 Lucy Brown

Waisted/wasted

“it’s what’s inside” by lucybrownsarahpager

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