The metaphor for interaction in Blood Sugar is the "zoom" the idea that we must "get closer," we must not look away, we must, in a certain sense, pass through the looking glass -- in order to see and understand the realities of the lived experience of one of the most impolitic, socially "othered" - the street junkie.


Graphically, each participant is represented as a vertical waveform or “audio body” and, functionally each interview can be listened to or “scrubbed” through in continuous, linear form.


The interface is designed to draw you in - first navigating the external/social space of each participants' story and then gradually moving toward what is embedded in the internal, the biological – metaphorically penetrating the skin.


While complete in themselves, the individual audio-bodies that represent each interview are linked together through “parasitic” connections revealed in their stories of pain, violence, abuse, and oppression. These links allowing the viewer to cross from one story to another to follow a thread of shared experience.


The interviews are framed by with anecdotal theory through a series of “question texts” and my own audio-body, which is seen and heard in the introduction and conclusion.

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