Recently I bought some rubber samples. I had envisaged making genitalia out of latex, cutting out the mutilated shapes, or even making female genitalia out of the latex. But perhaps this is too obvious?
Instead I have etched an orchid and printed it onto latex rectangles.
I did a series of them on the different colours of latex, this has almost given it a patchwork effect. I diluted red ink with white spirit and splattered it on – to make my point. However, the flowers are intact. If my point is about the mutilation of the female sexual organs, perhaps I need to show this?
I think that the bleeding of the open screen orchids does convey the pain and brutality of mutilation. Having considered ” Cut Flowers” as the title, I now think DO NOT CUT THE FLOWERS is more appropriate. It conveys my wish for this barbaric practice to end.
