“Pod” is a response to Ursula K. LeGuin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” looking at holes, cavities, vessels, and containers as innate and fundamental to humanity. This body of work delves into the way that preserving things inherently changes both the preserved and the preserver, and the way that everything eventually molds apart no matter how airtight the jar. It is also exploring the relationship between the held and the holder, when bodies are containers and containers are extensions of the body. When there is a cavity in these works, there is more room to take in new feelings and information, more sensitivity in tender flesh, the ability to see through the hole like a window into the world.