The Sewer Soaperie on The Hindustan Times

The Sewer Soaperie is featured in The Hindustan Times.

Thank you to Rachel Lopez for including the project in her piece on fatbergs—those stubborn accumulations of oil, wipes, and everyday habits that quietly shape our urban infrastructures.

The Sewer Soaperie began as a speculative question 10 years ago — what might it mean to transform sewer waste into soap? — and has since evolved into an ongoing inquiry into waste, systems, and the sensory dimensions of what we choose not to see (or smell).

I’m grateful (and slightly amused) to see the work travel into this context a decade after its inception as someone with clogged shower drains. The project continues across exhibitions, research collaborations, and interdisciplinary work between the poetic and the infrastructural.