The pseudo-individual is a small but unignorable form within a system that can be neither controlled nor ignored. Anything Goes (No Outside Food or Drink) presents visual metaphors that reflect on this tension.

The rigid game of chess serves as an archetype of a classed, racialized, and institutionalized society in which land and body are property; where one’s position in the hierarchy is written into the body, mirroring a contemporary neo-feudal, late-capitalist society. 

However, instead of playing the game straight, pawns cluster. Knights are held still, reigned in, while rats scuttle across canvases like tiny, wicked kings. The board is flipped and the circus begins.

Through repetition and patterning, the individual creates the collective while simultaneously being created by it in a reciprocal dynamic. Patterns exist as both barriers and collections, organizing planar space and coalescing into form. One stitch begs for another.

Anything Goes (No Outside Food or Drink) knows that power is not innate but seized, delegated and carefully maintained. Rules are imposed to control spectacle, maintain order and show dominance. However, rules must be enforced by an enforcer, in lieu of this enforcement anything goes.

Your turn.