Saliva Moon

BY BRIONY CLARKE

Saliva Moon was initiated when Briony Clarke was working with David McCarthy in Electron Microscopy at UCL. At the end of one collaboration session they had a little time left for experimentation and ‘out of weirdness’ she decided it may be interesting to look at her saliva.

She did, and was immediately confronted with perhaps the most strangely poetic and jarring image of the day. A striking living moon had been produced, directly from her mouth.

Saliva Moon featured as a live performance at the MOUTHY launch event in which participants had their spittle collated, magnified and projected on to a wall.