90 Day Supply for a Single-Use Body

Natalee Decker (she/her)
2020, Los Angeles
Plastic laminate, ribbed plastic shelf liner, pen and marker drawings on paper, textile, acrylic, dichroic film, fishing wire, metal o-rings, acrylic paint, nitrile gloves, intermittent catheters.

In progress

Image Description: "90-Day Supply for a Single-Use Body" hangs mostly flat on the wall. On top is a rectangular bar of shiny dichroic acrylic. Attached to this and at the bottom of the piece is a metal o-ring. From this top bar hangs white cotton trim attached in a zig-zag pattern to a large rectangle of layered plastic pieces. Segments of bright red velvet, bright pink nitrile gloves, and drawings are laminated in clear plastic and sewn together with rectangular layers of transparent and white ribbed shelf liner. There are a total of 4 drawing; the three smaller drawings feature abstract dots and lines in pink, red and orange. The central drawing features the same colors and abstract dots and lines in addition to a figure. This figure appears to float in the air, slightly reclined. Above the upper thigh, it is shrouded in a pink covering. Below this, the legs are bare, pierced by several neon orange lines. Two bright pink nitrile gloves have been laminated flat and these “hands” surround the central drawing. There are 3 intermittent catheters arranged vertically, with a minty green packaging. Atop the plastic, there are several evenly distributed dots of acrylic paint in the same minty green color. The many individual pieces are sewn together in straight stitches with white thread, and the excess thread hangs from the stitches in many long strands that wrap together.