"Because it sits right on the ocean's edge, it made me think a lot about borders, about the edge between the water and the land, the wet and the dry. That led me to thinking about similar body borders which led me to the site of the mouth- the mouth is such a great thing because it is not a thing. It's not like your nose or your eyes or your fingers- they all have edges. But the mouth is a negative space. The transgression of that border is a source of taboos and phobias. There is erotic pleasure through the mouth- you eat, you kiss; it's the site where language exists, where you throw up. But it's just empty space."

Ann Hamilton in coversation about her work between taxonomy and communion

"But it's just empty space."