Lost Earring (2017) explores how our cultural touchstones shift over time while considering the evolution of his own queer sexuality and transgender body. Found materials and cast plaster sculptures of familiar plumbing implements revolve around a projection of an isolated clip from the 1996 movie Bound by the film-making duo the Wachowski siblings. As two disembodied hands endlessly tighten and untighten the hidden plumbing of a bathroom sink, this charged and repeated gesture questions the role of function and aspiration in relation to the queered body. Through the use of light, objects, and moving imagery, Lost Earring re-imagines the commonplace setting of a bathroom in a queer and trans context -- where bodies and minds are often flooded with emotions from terror to desire. Installation view- Blue LED light bulbs, looped projection, found bathroom stall, cast plaster objects, found ceramic soap dishs, glass vials, ink, cottonseed oil, testosterone 2017

Installation view- Blue LED light bulbs, looped projection, found bathroom stall, cast plaster objects, found ceramic soap dishs, glass vials, ink, cottonseed oil, testosterone 2017

Installation detail- Blue LED light bulbs, Found bathroom stall, cast plaster objects, glass vials, cottonseed oil, testosterone 2017

Detail of Installation Lost Earring, plaster cast sculpture of typical American public bathroom plumbing fixture, found ceramic soap dish

Ikea table, Unique cast plaster objects, copper couplings, latex tubing, ink, plastic pipe, paper clay 2017

Ikea table, Unique cast plaster objects, copper couplings, latex tubing, ink, plastic pipe, paper clay 2017

Ikea table, Unique cast plaster objects, copper couplings, latex tubing, ink, plastic pipe, paper clay 2017

Original Plumbing and the Alchemical Body (2017) Situated in an old Pfizer drug compounding plant in Brooklyn, NY, Original Plumbing and The Alchemical Body takes on what it means to undergo medical steps to physically alter one's body. Here Doughtie explores what is a transgender object and how can it function in a space with a history that has led to his own medical transition. Installation view Ikea table, Unique cast plaster objects, copper couplings, latex tubing, ink, plastic pipe, paper clay 2017

Cast plaster faucets 2017

Copper coupling, plaster 2017

Copper couplings, glass vials, plastic tube, ink 2017

Glass vials, plastic tube, ink, epoxy, copper fixtures 2017

Locker Room (2020) Basketshop Gallery in Cincinnati, OH A shower has been deconstructed and cluttered with objects. Tile walls, copper pipes and bathroom plumbing implements are transformed from their original function to stand in for skin, organs, limbs or strange, exposed genitals, emphasizing vulnerability, tension, and the fluidity of identity.