Nightmare Bathroom
Robin Schiff
Even though the bathroom can be a refuge and a private place, I have always been afraid there. It is not a rational fear.
It may stem from the fear I had in childhood of being sucked down the drain with the water, the ritual of confronting my nakedness, staring at my face in the mirror, the fear of being intruded upon. I wanted to convey the idea of vulnerability. The woman in the tub is made completely of loose sand. Sand is able to take a shape and retain its vulnerability at the same time. By the end of the show she was eroded by fingerprints.
-Robin Schiff


