Capitalists need labour and markets, clergy need believers, and politicians—more than ever—need armies of soldiers. I use the industrial production of milk as a metaphor for oppression. The object, created from sheets of scorched milk combined with milk skins, visually represents the experience of motherhood. More significantly, it symbolizes the relentless (re)production demanded at all costs—costs that women and cows pay with their bodies.
MILK, SYNTHETIC LINE, 100 x 15 cm
The object, along with a video and a photo series, is part of a three-piece installation titled (Re)production: The Personal is Political.