Med Mix & Match

Med Mix and Match

Trigger Warnings: Suicide, Self Harm, Mania, Drugs

Date: 16Apr2023
Alter: Teres, Myra, Xaler
Material: Medication bottles, Dye sublimated fleece, 3D printed plastic, Pill organizers, Laser engraved hardboard, Candy
Size: 127cm*152cm*60cm

An amalgam of several of our pieces, this interactive mini-collection intertwines our works around medication. They combine to create an immersive experience of how we sometimes feel around our medications. A sense of dread and futility from what the medications themselves make claims of, let alone our own experiences from them. The monotony of dosing, the drowning in pill bottles, the questioning of the line between self and medication, and trying to keep organized enough to remember to take our pills. How sometimes it can feel like a medication is just a sugar pill.

It is interactive because we spent a lot of our childhood in a science museum and we love it's format. The pill bottle mural is what truly inspired it, as comparing it to the other pieces brought along the idea of merging them. With that, it introduces the interesting narrative of bringing someone in and introducing them to how to sort their own medication with an extremely cynical and surreal interpretation of what they will be stuck with the rest of their life.

A table covered with pill bottles, candy representing pills, medboxes, and pill orrganizers. There is a sign towards the back saying "Med Mix and Match. Set up your planner! Prepare your medbox! Organize your doses! Arrange your bottles! Don't eat any of this. Don't take the planners. Don't overdose." The pill bottles are arranged in the form of a drooling mouth. The table is covered with our piece Medication Warning Blanket. The candy is evenly scattered among the work with the exception of a pile next to extra pill bottles leaned up against the wall.
A table covered with pill bottles, candy representing pills, medboxes, and pill orrganizers. There is a sign towards the back saying "Med Mix and Match. Set up your planner! Prepare your medbox! Organize your doses! Arrange your bottles! Don't eat any of this. Don't take the planners. Don't overdose." The pill bottles are arranged in the form of a drooling mouth. The table is covered with our piece Medication Warning Blanket. The candy is evenly scattered among the work with the exception of a pile next to extra pill bottles leaned up against the wall.
A left 45 profile view of the Med Mix and Match installation
A left 45 profile view of the Med Mix and Match installation
A detailed shot showing the drooling mouth pill bottle mural, the intermingling of the loose candy representing pills on the medication warning blanket, and several of the medboxes containing those 'pills.'
A detailed shot showing the drooling mouth pill bottle mural, the intermingling of the loose candy representing pills on the medication warning blanket, and several of the medboxes containing those 'pills.'
Nat looking over the Med Mix and Match installation
Nat looking over the Med Mix and Match installation

Works Included

Pill Bottle Mural. 26Sep2022. Xaler, Taz. Trigger Warnings: Medication.
Medbox. 25Apr2023. Medi, Derex, Xaler, Tico.
Medication Warning Blanket. 6Apr2023. Teres. Trigger Warnings: Suicide, Self Harm, Mania, Drugs