2 channel video installation.

Cranbrook Museum and Cranbrook Library. Bloomfield Hills, MI.

This piece is part of a body of work which critiques the social implications of classical Greek thought used throughout the Age of Reason/Enlightenment. The work's initial inspiration comes from the Ancient Greek belief of the wandering womb. The belief holds that behaviors and illnesses of people who have a uterus, are due to the fact that their wombs are wandering through their abdomen. It was believed that the womb’s wild nature inherently caused weakness of body and mind. One of several common remedies to relieve the wandering womb, was the prescription of constant penetrative sex ideally to keep people pregnant so their wombs would not wander off. Eventually this belief lead to the reasoning for psychological pathologies in Europe, one of which would become known as hysteria:  the diagnosis that women are inherently hysterical. These practices became foundational for further violence on colonized people, and brings to light some of the roots of mistreatment and violence in (American) reproductive healthcare today.

This work collects imagery from hysteroscopies (or uterine imaging), and projects it back onto institutions built upon colonial hierarchies. The piece plays only at night.