What does the body need?
Circadian Supplement is a work which explores the contemporary culture of pharmaceutical interventions in the body.
What do we lose when we trust corporations to intervene in the body's chemical processes?
Should we privilege the natural or artificial?
What is nature, and is there a natural state we can "return" to?
Are we in the position to be discerning about the hormonal affectors we're exposed to?
Can we simulate an "unadulterated" state through supplementation and chemical intervention?
Through taking the supplement into their body, the audience engages in a form of communion with the artist, the materiality of the comestible itself, and with those they're partaking in the experience with.

This piece was created to be shown on-site at the NCAD FIELD Fattening 2022/23, an end of term mid-winter celebration of the experiences our class had shared, the skills and knowledge we'd learnt, and the relationships we'd built. It was important to me that the work explored themes of trust, and the place of technology in humankind's contemporary re-evaluation of our relationship with the natural world and our bodies.

As part of the work, attendees were invited to consume one of 12 agar orbs, each of which corresponded to an hour of the day- from 6am to 5pm. Those taking part were advised that each orb contained a pallete of supplements ranging from melatonin and caffeine to prolactin and testosterone; which would induce a state in the body designed to mimic the "organic" hormonal changes that would occur at the given time.