When Did This Become Normal?
Yolanda Cai
This project comes from a simple feeling: being watched, judged, and shaped all the time — not in an obvious way, but in small, constant ways that slowly become normal.
I use close-up images of the eye, tongue, and ear, because these are the parts of the body that connect us to the world. They are also the points where pressure enters.
In these images, the body is no longer fully in control. It is being adjusted, interfered with, almost managed.
What worries me is not the pressure itself, but how quickly we get used to it.
At some point, it stops feeling like pressure at all.