Pill Bottle Mural
Trigger Warnings: Medication
Date: 26Sep2022
Alter: Xaler, Taz
Material: Pill bottles
Size: Variable
So many meds. So. Many. Meds. We used to be on I think 15 scripts? We also change meds and dosages often. We have so many bottles. We sometimes wonder how much of how we are is our medication. How it changes us. Obviously, lots of benefits. Not dying is one of them. But how does it change us? What’s our brain chemistry like now? Is it better? Worse? Different? It’s hard to tell where we stop and the meds start. This is how many bottles we’ve used in the past two years. Yes, only two. As a performance piece, we make murals out of the used pill bottles that express emotions or our experiences with medications.
Most Recent Installation
Installations
1 - 26Sep2022
2 - 28Feb2023
Work In Progress Images
It took days to clean off the labels. It was so much tedious work. We soaked it for days. We had to drown it in soap for more time and then spend hours scraping off all the adhesive and trying to make the fuckers not sticky. It was so, so much work.
Also, we couldn't even shower during that time.