Year:

2023

Self-Care Factory explores the theme of love by focusing on the concept of self-love and self-care, the practice of consciously doing things to improve our wellbeing. The character is receiving skin-care and objects connoting self-care activities such as reading, listening to music, exercising and relaxing with a cup of tea next to a scented candle. As the audience scans the image with Artivive, an animation is triggered showing the result of self-care as love circulating and flowers blooming from their head symbolising mental and physical growth.

By putting the theme of self-care in a somewhat contradictory setting of a factory with the character resembling more of a robot, this piece ironically comments on the fact that self-care is not something that can be automated, but is something that needs conscious effort and self-awareness and invites the audience to reflect of their own act of self-care.