From a biological standpoint, cleaning out your ears with a cotton swab is unnecessary and can in fact cause more problems than it solves. Despite this, we as a society still feel compelled to engage in this grooming ritual. “Q-Tips” enlarges these used swabs to examine the by-products of the human body that goes undiscussed in polite society and the desire to remove things everyone’s bodies naturally create simply because they have been designated as abject.