Never Enough

32 x 26 x 15 inches

Materials: felt, pastels, pearl beads, net, paint, foam clay, metal hooks

"Never Enough" depicts a woman's vagina made of felt cloth caged inside a crab trap. The hole prompts audiences to reach inside, reflecting the concept of an unobtainable beauty for women in a patriarchal system that is represented by the crab trap. Oysters hang from metal fishing hooks representing the victims who are hurt from being hooked into this unhealthy, unobtainable obsession of being attractive to the male gaze. This piece is about the reality of this system, of exposing the warped, bloody bodies of women trapped in a cycle of reaching for a femininity defined by and only by physical beauty.

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