This work serves as a surrogate body; a manifestation of my embodied experience navigating endometriosis. Held in tension by its own materiality, the work exists in a state between health and illness, where skin becomes the threshold between private and public, internal and external, as one lays bare themselves within the clinical encounter.
In a perpetual negotiation between acceptance and resistance, the body holds and questions the violence we accept as forms of 'care.' Visible wounds speak to electrocauterisation and ablation (surgical techniques used to remove the disease from the body) with the absence of flesh embodying an ambiguous position that is both one in the process of healing and yet of fragmentation and deterioration. For now, the disease and I coexist in a fragile harmony, a balance that can be disrupted at any moment if pain wishes to reassert control.
