‘Anesthesia Studies’ deals with numbness, seen through the medical gaze. In response to Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers - I borrowed the white and red in the film as well as the cold distant nature of the characters, and saw them materially in cold flesh-like texture of the EPE foam. I Injected the foam with with brick powder, and pigment to evoke an inflicted, and aroused sensitivity in a synthetic body – implanting a contained, mute internal wound.