Michelle Frick

My work is filtered through medicine, healing, and the hospital experience. The viewer reconsiders medical monitors, intravenous line components, drain tubes, vials, and electrodes in a new context. Hospital paraphernalia can trigger uneasy associations. My interest lies in playing with these associations when the objects are recontextualized by exploring the animate qualities they carry. My work implies a series of contradictions. These include nature and the synthetic world that sustains us, the natural resilience of the human body and the advanced medical technology we have come to rely on, fear and sweetness, and waste and environmental awareness.