Context: Textile Installation, Narrative Environment Medium: Textiles, Flesh, Fish Hook, Plywood Software: PE Design 11-Brother
Savage Beauty presents a perch where moths gather, flutter, and eventually rest on a piece of embroidered flesh. Over time, the meat decays and the insects shift from feeding to stillness, marking a quiet cycle of desire and deterioration.
This work began as a way for me to investigate the erotic impulses buried under my own skin. Growing up with sexuality tightly restrained, I felt those emotions turning inward, fermenting and rotting. The act of piercing and sewing the meat became a tactile process of confronting that suppression, both an exertion of control and a surrender to it.
I wanted the piece to be experienced directly in its smell, its texture, and its slow decomposition. The presence of insects introduces another perspective, creatures that seem to inhabit the work with more ease than humans do. As César A. Cruz writes, “Art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable.” Savage Beauty sits within that tension.