Smothering is a visceral descent into the “gray areas” where affection and aggression bleed into one another.

Performing “Smothering” is taking the risk of saying nothing or everything. Metaphors, metonymies, fractured language, bad and improper words create a space where holding someone close is only a heartbeat away from holding them under.

Swearing as affection
Swearing as aggression
Swearing as acts of “suppressing out of love”
Swearing as a mother
Swearing as a child
Swearing as a lover
Swearing as a complex economy of enjoyment and excitement
Swearing as a release of stress
Swearing as response to pain
Swearing as a primal pleasure
Swearing as banality
Swearing as an exchange
Swearing as “making a link”
Swearing as a demand to the (m)other

“To love is to give something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it.”

Dirty words, proper teeth and how disfigured bodies take shape.