In online disability communities, ‘spoon theory’ is frequently used to describe the limitations of living with chronic illness and pain. ‘Being out of spoons’ has become a quick way to say that one’s body can no longer handle activity for the day either because of pain, fatigue, or some other issue. In The Body Aches Like Wanting spoons are dipped in wax and resin in various colors reminiscent of body fluids and to represent being ‘used up’. They are nailed in rows like specimens. Each of the five rows of spoons has a single spoon with a word carved into the handle, forming the sentence, “the body aches like wanting.”