Self Portrait- Diana Corset

 Life size corset made from steel wire, handmade gampi paper with yarn and adhesive, yarn wrapped steel wire dipped in flax fibers, kozo strings, and aluminum clasps.

I created the corset as a metaphor for the sexual confidence of my womanhood. Self Portrait Diana stands as a powerful bodice embracing her raw sexuality. Made from steel wire, gampi fiber, flax fiber, and yarn she holds her own weight and form, illuding to the strength and fragility of raw skin and bone. She embodies the Greek Goddess Diana. Diana is the goddess of the hunt, wild animals, trees, and fertility. She is the killer and the protector of animals. In all of her myths she is free from a man and at one with her sexual being. She is her own embodiment and her own choices in her sexuality,motherhood and spirit.