Belly Bodies
Belly Bodies, 2025
21 objects in total, variable dimensions
Smallest Belly: 5 ½ x 2 ½ x 7 ½ inches
Largest Belly: 11 x 2 ½ x 14 inches
wood, discarded metal hardware, repurposed bedsheets, poly-fill
Belly Bodies considers the body as a site where softness holds memory, pressure, and time. Soft, swelling forms hold tension and weight, shifting between comfort and discomfort. The materials are pushed and shaped in ways that echo flesh, stretching and resisting while still maintaining a sense of care. Bodies, especially female bodies, are controlled, penetrated, regulated, or dismissed. Embedding discarded hardware into the surface complicates their tenderness. Rusty screws, nails, and small metal fragments sink into the material as if lodged in their skin. These forms act as extensions of the body that carry traces of lived experience. The work moves between protection and exposure, where boundaries begin to feel unstable, and where the body is understood through its ability to hold and remember.