The pandemic has reconfigured our relationships with the outside world as well as with the people and objects around us. The piece explores this reconfiguration of everyday human-object relations through the tactile. The role of touch in constructing everyday human experiences became painfully apparent during the pandemic with the touch starvation of isolation and the paranoid reluctance to touch potentially infectious surfaces. In other words, the global pandemic has significantly restricted access to touch, leading to mundane experiences becoming surreal. This installation uses surrealism to distort a mundane indoor dining restaurant experience. In the piece, collapsible fabric spoons, fabric covered wine glasses and the screen that divides the table makes consumption  and interaction impossible, which turns an ordinary restaurant experience into something odd and disorienting.

The installation is also meant to be a comment on how the consumption of media and the subsequent information overload during the pandemic has distorted reality. We are constantly in touch with the realities of the pandemic while simultaneously being starved of a diversity of touch/tactile experiences. Are we then out of touch with reality and in touch with a certain kind of surreality? What does it mean for the human subject to be in touch with the unfolding events/realities yet out of touch with the tactile physicality of human contact? Is that why touch feels different and almost surreal now? Are we more or less touched by our surroundings? Does this point to how tactility is almost central to the human experience?