Even A Worm Will Turn

Even A Worm Will Turn navigates the polished lines of the sterile furniture of the medical industrial complex and modernist architecture, exposing the latent violences they impose on the lives of the chronically ill and disabled. Here, even the mundane becomes complicit, it's supposed neutrality concealing a history of control and erasure. Suspended in the fragmented temporality of queer Crip time, the work embraces the irregular rhythms of disability and chronic illness, rejecting linear progress for something softer, stranger, and more alive (undead). Prize ponies appear as spectral figures, glittering symbols of value, competition, and commodification, exposing systems that rank and exploit vulnerable bodies. Through “cute aesthetics,” fragility wields a quiet vengeance, unsettling the ableist gaze and reframing vulnerability as cunning resistance. This is a reclamation, undoing structures of imposed suffering and a reaching toward futures where survival is not only possible but radiant with defiance.