"Let’s dive in with “Infinite Caca” — my first encounter with Tita Cicognani’s deliriously polymorphous practice. The centerpiece of the installation-cum-immersive environment was Grotto Tub (Hot Tub [#2](/culture/new/2) ) (2022), a self- contained, slightly hallucinatory pleasure pod elaborated around an inflatable tub. Its liquid interior was rendered kaleidoscopic by its mirrored Plexiglas walls and outline of LED lights that modulated seductively to a droning soundtrack, transforming the whole thing into a type of large-scale mood ring. By contrast, its exterior was a more roughly hewn assemblage upholstered with rock- printed fabric punctuated by clip art motifs of doves, butterflies, and flower petals — a syrupy veneer disrupted at various points by visible plumbing pumping out darkly colored liquids (a video looping nearby of two figures mud wrestling in a kiddie pool underscored the scatological punchline). The overall effect is not unlike what would happen if an abandoned Playboy Mansion dip pool somehow evolved inexplicably into a semi- sentient digestive system."