To Spit to Shine is an installation that consists of three pieces, Fire Palate, Roll, pull, spoon and To Spit to Shine. Together, they allude to the sensation of having a wound, a cut or scorch inside the mouth, and the reflexive action of being able to feel and touch the scorch with the tongue. To Spit to Shine, questions the animacy of the scar as a separate entity from the body and as an open entrance to the interior of it, acting as a window into a seemingly collapsed bodily dichotomy (interior-exterior). Frozen-in-time saliva, shapes and contains this specific moment creating a space for intimacy.