This series is a conceptual derivative of various pictures that I had experimented with in the prior years, in which I photographed swiped dirt stuck on a paper towel or toilet paper. But one day when I was wiping off my bathroom sink after shaving, it dawned on me that I also need to start photographing the swiped off shaved hairs that are stuck on the toilet paper. Why? Because, metaphorically speaking, they are the people who were trying to flee the smooth and shiny porcelain road to wealth! And look what happened to them! The images of this project lingered for several years collecting dust inside my computer, until I put it together in 2024 at the launching of my site: The smooth and shiny road to wealth, status, and power, catches up to you, swipes you, and discards you... even bloody sometimes. In the images where you see longer hairs, it's actually not longer hairs, but high status elite who are holding onto their wealth, and trying to escape without, God forbid, leaving their wealth possessions behind. In their attempt to run away with their tons of wealth, they get tangled up in even more mess. Poor guys! See what wealth does to you on your shiny road? It eventually catches up to you and swipes you!