I surprised her by showing up with a bag of raw chicken skin in my hand, ready to do my project. She screamed and then suddenly began to laugh. Still smiling, she turned towards me and said, ‘I guess that’s what I get for putting a dead cockroach in your drawer last time!”

These series of cups aim to explore the visual definition of ‘repulsion’. Inspired by Méret Oppenheim’s gazelle-fur cup, ‘le Déjeuner en fourre,’ found objects are sculpted onto teacups to repurpose the everyday.