Contemplating The Ethics of Dust' evokes the memory of the story surrounding the Sudarium, the stained cloth that preserves the markings of the body and blood of Christ, transforming these large latex cloths into relics which preserve the material reality of bodies and buildings. The process of covering the building's body with latex, stripping its surface and preserving it as an object to be displayed, also evokes associations with beauty by waxing and with dirtiness often attributed to body hair and dead skin cells. By contemplating this surface of markings, the image confronts the viewer with the inevitability of waste and decay, the anxiety surrounding loss, the fear of the ageing process of bodies and buildings, and the human instinct to collect and preserve that which is meaningful.
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