single channel HD video with sound
14’45”
2008
I became interested in the excessive action of washing and cleansing. The idea of cleanliness changes from person to person and from time to time. That one is clean and this one is dirty. It’s all dirty. Clean everything up. Washing in our lives is a very familiar activity, but where do we get the value judgments that are acting on it? When I turn on the TV, the late-night mail order shows say, “You can wash anything!” and advertises its special detergent mockingly. Anything can be washed. We are washing everything. Is it possible for us to imagine a number of cleansings going on in places we cannot see? With this thought in mind, I washed my cup in the kitchen. Wash the vegetables. Wash the fish. Wash the…
