""sap cavity"" explores a “two-ness”, a doubling, and the space in between. The video emphasizes the sculpture’s interior-ness, gravity, accumulation, and time. Interiority, both bodily and spacial, is investigated as it relates to surface, access, and space-making. The sculpture toes the line between beauty and edge + yummy and gross—evoking a sickening sweetness. It highlights the viewers desire for aesthetic. ""sap cavity"" is a skin, shell, armor, skeleton, stalactite, body, tent, and shelter. Skin having a multitude of “two-ness” functions—permeating and border-creating, opening and closing, releasing and containing, protecting and wounding.

Image still of video work with a handmade glass sculpture on an industrial mirror with a plain white background as the subject. The glass sculpture’s surface has hot melted wax dripped onto it in the image.

Breslin Bell is an interdisciplinary artist working in print, sculpture, and installation informed by feminisms. She has exhibited widely since 2016 in group exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, and Japan—including, “Tomorrow 2021” at White Cube London and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021. Bell earned her MFA from RISD and BA from Wellesley College.

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