Oh, and she fell
in the garden

For this submission, I made a sculpture using found objects (kitchenware and toys, some broken) to create a female persona. She has a black eye, and the title Oh, and she fell in the garden refers to either excuses made by victims of GBV, or lies told about how victims sustained their injuries by perpetrators of GBV. The use of discarded objects of a domestic nature plays on notions of being discarded, and of being constituted of a version of domesticity that is adopted to play into the demands of abusive partners. Using toys and other objects allows for these objects to become metaphors of enmeshment, brokenness and confusion.