Justin Cox | The Foam Sprayer Mixed Media: Photo on aluminum panel + respirator in case

Breathing in fumes, try to remain calm, reassure myself the filters are working and I'm safe. These are the thoughts that would run through my head on a daily basis during the time I spent operating a two-part closed cell spay on foam truck. Going into peoples homes I would insulate everything from the attic, living quarters, to the sub floor. Often I would have to warn home owners of the dangerous byproduct it creates isocyanate gas, pleading with family members to remove those at most risk for the minimum 24 hours. The elderly which more often than not where the main customers were most at risk. I witnessed a relationship repeating itself over and over again, of individuals looking to better provide comfort and support for their loved ones or themselves better enabling their survival, and in doing so inviting toxic a substances into their very homes. I began to see a symbolic pattern of the root desire to survive being the very thing that led these individuals down a path to the very thing they tried to resist.