In Oral Intervention, intimate gestures of touching and reaching into mouths become a lens through which to examine the boundaries between private ritual and public space. The series captures spontaneous moments where hands meet lips, exploring the mouth as both a physical gateway and symbolic threshold between inner and outer worlds.
Set in public, these unposed encounters reveal an unexpected intimacy. Each image captures the tension between vulnerability and trust as subjects allow others to breach this most sensitive boundary. The mouth—site of speech, sustenance, and expression—becomes a focal point where personal space intersects with shared experience. Where private becomes public.
Beyond documenting physical contact, the work examines how these fleeting interactions mirror broader patterns of human connection. Like ancient rituals where touching sacred lips brought statues to life, these modern gestures carry echoes of age-old desires to reach across the divide between self and other. Through these moments, Oral Intervention reveals how seemingly simple acts of touch can bridge conscious and unconscious realms, transforming ordinary encounters into markers of intimacy and trust.
