The Bathroom Series .

The Bathroom Series .

The Bathroom Series transforms the bathroom: a space of concealment, ritual, and survival, into a site of critical inquiry. Drawing from his experience with epilepsy and medicalization, Ender uses pigment made from ground prescription pills to create paintings that materialize the intimate realities of care, confinement, and bodily autonomy.

These works emerge from the only place Ender could exist alone during a prolonged hospitalization: the bathroom, just far enough from his medical equipment to offer a brief moment of solitude. This series confronts the tension between privacy and surveillance, control and refuge, presence and erasure.

Through material accumulation and restraint, The Bathroom Series reflects on what it means to survive inside systems that do not see the full body, or the full person. These works do not offer resolution. Instead, they hold space for discomfort, for slowness, and for the quiet knowledge carried by those who have had to make their own sanctuaries under pressure.