Piss Pool is based on Slim Aarons photograph from 1955 called ‘The Good Life’ taken in Palm Beach Florida. In Nye’s reworking of this image, Nye assembles a cast of women and non-binary people, ages 65-92, including her mother, grandmother, their life-long friends, and elders from the queer community. Piss Pool offers a glimpse into a queer utopia of intergenerational kinship, representing aging bodies that have long been omitted from visual culture.

Revising Aaron’s work, Piss Pool re-populates the poolside with queered visions of ‘attractive people’ and subvert the ‘attractive things’ they might do. Challenging the heteronormativity and cisgenderness of Aaron’s work and time period, Nye’s poolscape is saturated with queer women and non-binary elders in a bacchanal setting of leisure, sex, and play. For Nye, It is important to present lesbians that are gender-fluid, trans, kinky, body-positive, and active participants in their desires.