This work consists of two cast iron grapefruit skins, thin and hollow. The skins, alongside resembling boobs, create vessular bowls when turned the other way. They respond to this idea of womblike holding and incubation with the feminine principle. Due to the fragility of the skins there were intended imperfections in the casting, small holes and cracks. This idea of the unfunctional vessel is very poignant to me, relating to my own relationship with fertility.
Iron has a certain fertile nature about it; often seen as a fetal production or child of the furnace, ultimately relating to earth and creation. Placing these iron grapefruit skins onto myself is a performative act of projecting this fertility onto myself. As a second skin or extra appendage to wear this iron is to literally and metaphorically carry.
