This performance is a confrontation with the idealized imagery of the past and how it influences the present. I have been working with a mold-making and casting process with various forms reminiscent of classical Greco-Roman male busts, think of Michelangelo's David, or the beautiful boy archetype. This image references Western idealizations of perfection as well as modern gay male culture. That duality of references allows me to at once confront my own experience with narcissism as a gay man, while simultaneously pointing to the need to understand historical artifacts to inform the present. I have cast the form of the bust in soap, and during the casting process placed contact microphones inside. During the performance, I begin to strip and wash my body with the soaps, with the microphones amplifying the sounds. The piece implies the action of washing away the canonical idealizations of the past through the deterioration of the soaps image during the washing process.