Alexandra Lerman 
Swipe Swipe Swipe. Crowning.
2026, clay, hardware

How does silky-smooth screen-swiping alter our relationship with the tactile environment? A series of clay slabs, each the size of a smartphone, are inscribed with the obsessive repetition of touch-screen gestures — swipes, pinches, slides. Every day, billions of people perform the same choreography on their phones — movements so habitual and instinctual they have become unconscious. Few realize that these gestures are subject to ownership. Swipe, pinch-to-zoom, slide-to-unlock: all are patented by Apple, Inc. Lerman reclaims them by pressing them into clay — returning a copyrighted motion to one of the oldest recording surfaces we know. Swipe Swipe Swipe traces the quiet way corporations script our bodies, and monetize our habits.