Rooted in the fraught terrains of embodiment and gender performativity, Fine Soil & Caramel stages a body weaponized for signification rather than seduction. Through a register of dissidence and disobedience, Ashitei destabilizes the optics of desirability — where eroticism is unmoored from access, and sweetness flirts with fetishistic excess.

Pixie cut, underarm fuzz, and unfiltered skin — each still renders the body as a living topology of flesh, affect, and matter. In forging a self-fashioning that ruptures the consumerist feminine script, Ashitei dismantles both the hyperfeminine simulacrum and the reductive neutrality of gender conformity.