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Bone Folders + Blue Gloves, named in honor of objects I use on a daily basis, is an ABSURD shopping experience that explores data collection, consumer culture and OCD in a new way. By recontextualizing shapes and patterns of pathogens to fit into consumer culture vernacular of arcades and supermarkets, my seemingly invisible fear was made to be visually inescapable. Since the initial idea for my projects came from the parallel of arcade claw machine imagery to virus pathogen shapes, I decided my that supermarket would also take on the conventional architecture and decor of arcades with "prizes" hanging on a fence. My thesis books were enclosed in an acrylic box with two sets of arm holes that the viewer had to use to access the content. The box was a means to keep germs out but also acted as a real time collection of visible germs on the plastic.