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Mirroring the twelve pairs of ribs found in most humans, these sets of Korean and American spoons offer the whimsical delight of visceral self-recognition and iteratively identifiable forms, inviting one to dance with or settle into sets.

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To Audre Lorde, the erotic is an embodied feeling or knowing arising from the soul self that precedes structured language; it bridges differences.

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To Roland Barthes, the Neutral comprises “twinklings” of idiosyncratic modes of aliveness and difference that resist calcification into form.

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In teasingly conjuring the erotic and Neutral through the resoluteness of culturally generic forms, these sets offer a playful proposition of presence, comfort and belonging.

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