Care in the Shadows Hexin LiuThis work employs the physical interaction between ice-lettering and thermal paper to metaphorize capitalism's systematic erosion of care, bringing these traces of exploitation that have been naturalized as "normal" to the fore.. As the heat gun (symbolizing market logic) melts the ice letters, only blank traces remain on the darkened thermal paper, mirroring care's marginalized existence under profit-driven individualism and dismantled public services. Visualizing capitalism's structural violence against care through material metamorphosis, while using the fragility of "ice traces" to urge re-establishing care networks. Related to The Care Manifesto's critique of marketized care labor—the melting ice embodies care's devaluation, while the residual traces propose possibilities for reimagining care ethics.
Category The Care Manifesto