Shadow Cunt/ Cunt Clock (is wishbone a better title?)
Shadow c*nt, 2026.
Materials: Human hair, chicken wishbone, perspex.
The labia shadow is created by directional lighting. I like the idea of turning this into a clock, with a circular perspex base and a moving lightsource. Working title: I'm only a c*nt once every 12 hours.
Above = edited image. See below for original images.
I experimented with this piece last year and have wanted to revisit it for a while now. I had always had in mind to mount the taxidermy piece on a neo plaque, synonymous with hunting trophies. This focuses the language of the piece into a more feminist narrative, one that looks at the objectification and violence faced by women. Women are often hunted or objectified and dehumanized as pieces of meat or trophies by toxic power structures in society at large. And the attitudes connected to this oppression can often lead to injury and death. The rise of INCEL/ blue pill culture, as well as the behavior and rhetoric of its figureheads, is indicative of how very real and presents these attitudes still are in the population.
It's also a biology lesson, because the clitoris is shaped like 2 wishbones stacked. Lesser known buy true nonetheless.
I love using hair. It's a fascinating material that people have this really paradoxical relationship with. We venerate it in sone places and despise it in others. That's really interesting to me and has manifold depth. It's mythological eulogised as a source of strength. Unsurprising then that patriarchal idiots desire adult women to be free from public hair so they might look more like a naïve prepubescent girl. A luscious mane is venerable but hair in soup is gip worthy. Fascinating.
I am motivated to revisit this piece now because of a couple of feminist themed open calls coming up that I want to submit for.
One is for a billboard exhibition in London for International Women's Day 2026:
I will also submit my screenprint Who's in Charge for this opportunity.
The second open call is a Women's only exhibition at a Fox Yard Studios in Suffolk.
As above, the idea of turning it into a clock because it adds another layer of discussion to the piece; namely the biological clock pressure women face as well as how women are often oppressed by the breeding narratives that exist within the aforementioned toxic societal structures.
I'm wondering if this is best submitted to the second open call as a sculptural piece with directional lighting. Either way, I want to get some better images before the submission deadlines.
