HEELS

HIGH-FEMME DESTRUCTION. 2019

ROLE: ARTIST

HEELS, TRANSFORMS THE HIGH-HEEL INTO A CEREMONIAL DAGGER. using these CONSTRUCTS OF FEMININITY AND PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS as SACRIFICIAL WEAPON-WEAR, TRANSFORMING INTO OBJECTS THAT DECONSTRUCT, REFORM AND TRANSMUTE SIMULTANEOUSLY. THE EGG IS UTILIZED AS AS SACRED FORM, A SYMBOL OF ORIGIN, BOTH A LITERAL AND METAPHORIC VESSEL, EMBODYING THE BALANCE BETWEEN BIRTH AND DEATH…A TEMPORAL SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS. BY INVOKING THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF HIGH-HEEL FETISHISM and the sacred egg, THE work DOES NOT INDULGE fetishistic DESIRE BUT SUBVERTS IT to a ritual of resistance through destruction. it reframes the femme beyond just an aesthetic, here it has a sacred purpose in ritual and weaponized transmutation.

HEELS IS PART OF THE DESTRUCTION RITUAL SERIES. THE DRS IS AN ONGOING EXPLORATION OF THE BODY AS SACRED WEAPON, A PRACTICE WHERE SISYPHEAN REPETITION TRANSFORMS DESTRUCTION INTO RITUAL. OFTEN USING SACRED OR FETISHIZED OBJECTS AND MATERIALS, THESE RITUALS ARE THE PHYSICAL CATALYST OF TRANSMUTATION SPELLS…INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION AS RE-BIRTH THROUGH CREATION AND RELEASE. THE SERIES SPEAKS TO PHYSICAL AGENCY, BODILY AUTONOMY AND FREE WILL AGAINST CENSORSHIP THROUGH PRACTICING ACTS OF TABOO EROTICISM. THESE ACTS EXIST IN PARADOX, BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN WHAT IS SACRED OR PROFANE. LIKE THE MYSTICAL OR JUNGIAN ARCHETYPE OF THE TRICKSTER, THE DRS POINTS TO THE DISMANTLING AND CLEARING OF LARGER LESS TANGIBLE STRUCTURES OUTSIDE OF THE PHYSICAL THROUGH ACTS OF PSYCHO-MAGICAL DESTRUCTION.