In this performance piece, I covered myself in cold, water-filled medical gloves to show how the medical system has altered my relationship with touch. Patients, particularly female patients, undergo a dehumanizing objectification where they have no control over their bodies. My goal was to show the emotional impact of this objectification, and how I have come to associate touch with pain — surgeries, injections, blood draws, swabs, etc. I then created a stop motion video using the images and additional ones - all the images, including the medical photos, are my own.