A disembodied clam shell takes center stage in Julie Curtiss's 2022 gouache on paper work, rendered with the artist's signature blend of surrealist unease and darkly comedic sensibility. The shell's interior suggests something fleshy and provocative, playing on the double entendre embedded in the title. Curtiss employs her precise, almost clinical technique to transform a seemingly mundane subject into something simultaneously absurd and unsettling.