Ohio House Bill № 183 in A Major was an audiovisual installation meant to raise awareness of the bill it was named after—a proposed ban on trans students in bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity in schools and universities across the state of Ohio. I individually cut out hundreds of copies of three different card designs before stacking them on the counters and taping them on the walls of 4 single-sex bathrooms and 2 single-sex locker rooms around Kenyon College. On the back of each card was the name of a website (someoneswatchingme.com) that, when visited, played the video component to the piece and featured all three card designs (as seen below) in a rotating slideshow.

Ohio House Bill № 183 in A Major encapsulates the paranoia experienced by trans and gender-nonconforming students in the face of transphobic legislation, confronts cisgendered students with issues they might not be as aware of in a location they don’t want to be confronted in (perhaps imitating the confrontations feared by trans students in bathrooms), and works to grapple with the desire to make sense of what can feel like senseless cruelty.

Ohio’s statewide bathroom ban went into effect in February of 2025.