Mouth Wash

  • Words Take Shape
  • Paint­ed cast paper, soap bars, vinyl letters
  • 12″ Diam­e­ter

A woven paper bowl filled with soap bars becomes a reminder of a child­hood pun­ish­ment for lying, as well as a metaphor for clean liv­ing” or com­ing clean”. The word LIE is print­ed on each soap wrap­per and in this game of word asso­ci­a­tion could be read as a noun or a verb, or as the homonym for lye”, an ingre­di­ent used in mak­ing soap.