With Teethe is a multidisciplinary project exploring embodiment as unstable knowledge. Emerging from lived experience with traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and chronic nerve pain, the work traces how perception, sensation, and communication shift after neurological trauma. When cognitive language falters, the body speaks through nerves, teeth, fatigue, and sensory fluctuation.

Teeth recur throughout the project as sensory instruments and communicative thresholds. In a video documenting a neuro-therapeutic exercise, each tooth is gently tapped with a Q-tip, producing sensations that range unpredictably from numbness to shock-like pain. The mouth becomes a shifting neurological landscape where sensation and interpretation blur.

The project extends into a handmade zine combining self-portraits, neurological test imagery, dental scans, and fabric imprints resembling bite marks. A wearable sculpture, monster teeth, cast from molds of my own teeth, functions as both ornament and communication device—signaling moments when speech becomes difficult.

Across video, sculpture, and publication, With Teethe approaches disability as an evolving sensory environment rather than a fixed condition.

Writing

Writing developed alongside the works extends this investigation into institutional and cultural space. These texts question how accessibility is defined, who it serves, and what forms of knowledge are recognized as legitimate.

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