In I am soft and wet and oily , a slug confronts its onlooker through a smudgy haze. I used glossy card stock, to increase the sensation of slickness between oil pastel and hand. It felt smudgy and sluggy to form,

The title comes from a line in SLUGS: A Manifesto: “My brain is thick and foggy. I am soft and wet and oily.” Same slug, same. 

This work forms part of slugspaceslug: a series of small works on paper and card made in crip time, during a period of winter hibernation. Each piece explores the physics of becoming slug-like: slugs bend into strange and unusual places, or spill over into spaces in which they don't belong.

Details: measures 10.5 × 14.8cm

Materials: oil pastel on white gloss card stock

Signed and dated on reverse

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