{"id":26426,"date":"2025-01-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=26426"},"modified":"2025-01-06T10:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:39:46","slug":"capturing-campus-washing-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/01\/12\/capturing-campus-washing-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing Campus: Washing Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Content warning: Obsessive compulsive behavior, gore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washing Ritual<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Close the door; lock it for privacy; check again, for privacy; remember to breathe; turn the faucet; let the water <em>pour pour pour<\/em> into the basin; watch the steam build up; pump the soap; press down one, two, three; like a cloud; scrub the palms and the wrists; the palms again; get the fingers: three, four, five; the frog webs or minor syndactyly\u2014it must be one of the two: three, four, five; dig in the groves and under the fingernails that don\u2019t have dirt under them but maybe they do, they always could: one, two, three, four, five; move to the left hand; one, two, three, four, five; one, two, three, four, five; one, two, three, four\u2014the water should be scalding, just enough to blister, but not enough to regret; scrub hard, scrub very hard; scrape at the holes and the raw patches; rub away the fine lines, the creases, the folds in the flesh; keep going; the blisters will go away in an hour or two\u2014maybe three; another pump: one, two, three; again\u2014the right hand; the left hand; keep going; don\u2019t stop; it burns because it\u2019s <em>working<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-duotone-000000-ffffff-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"307\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/jan-12-edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/jan-12-edited-1.jpg 307w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/jan-12-edited-1-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: Obsessive compulsive behavior, gore Washing Ritual Close the door; lock it for privacy; check again, for privacy; remember to breathe; turn the faucet; let the water pour pour pour into the basin; watch the steam build up; pump the soap; press down one, two, three; like a cloud; scrub the palms and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":25727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2034,2148,1520,34,281,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26430,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26426\/revisions\/26430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}