Photography
New Psychedelia of Industrial Healing
Live Antibody Photography Series
New Psychedelia of Industrial Healing [c.2018] is a 130-day photo–assemblage series made within successive 24-hour intervals. Each arrangement was composed and photographed during the brief “warm-up” window when the antibody left the refrigerator before injection: a 15-minute creative and medical constraint that shaped the entire rhythm of the project.
The series functioned as disclosure and radical exposure: an attempt to normalize the shame and isolation surrounding daily injections, a stigma carried since early childhood. Through repetition, improvisation, and domestic materials, the images reframe medical ritual as both ordinary and mythic.
Before the post-pandemic mainstreaming of “injection culture” Botox, Wegovy, vitamin drips, medical aesthetics - the hashtag #NewPsychedeliaofIndustrialHealing offered its own form of public online visibility.
It unfolded as a daily online event where people could “tune in” to the digital algorithm and witness an evolving practice of survival, radical intimacy, and anti-shame architecture.
Within each image, the antibody becomes the “visible subject,” the star of the frame, while the disabled body remains deliberately off-camera, non voyeristic, privacy protected. This inversion, exposing the ‘anti-body’ challenges what aspects of disabled bodies, are permitted to be seen, and under what terms.
A selection from the larger body invites viewers to stay with the experiment:
Who defines celebration while policing the expression of the disabled?
130 photos are paired with meditative prose reflecting on childhood stigma, lifelong treatment, and the psychic terrain of a medically tethered existance.
Meditative Pprose & Image Descriptions [ID] available for each of the series photos.