Animating the Interior By Nikē Baneberry

Water feels like queerness: When our legs touch under the water there is a soft pressure between our skin, like two positive magnets that can't touch, there is a hum between our skin. Jumping into a pool in the middle of the night when the water is so hauntingly dark, the only thing suggesting I'm in water is the splash, the cool on my skin, the slippy slidey playfulness of touching feet.

The way water's cohesive nature entices it to merge, is akin to queerness. It's the strong bond between molecules that allows us to overflow our containers, like water resisting the pressure to spill out of a glass. As queer folk we enmesh ourselves with one another holding tight. Like water we gather together into a mass, puddling and wallowing in our communal pleasure. The drawing here shows three spaces in the building held together by surface tension, congregating into a single mass making it hard for any wall or edge to puncture the surface. The three rooms: the steam room, rain room, and gathering space are drawn at convening 45° worms' eye perspectives so that extruded interior lines thrust themselves across the perspectives of adjoining spaces. The rooms seem to blend and intersect so that their distinct dimensions are obscured. They are each vollying to express their particularities on the shared paper, wrestling and tangling their lines up together, conjuring an illusion.