Katie Richardson
Under Foot , 2016
72 x 60
in
used sweaters, socks, thread, yarn, zippers and wax
The archetype of the female rabbit has long been used to distill women’s identities to simple sexual and reproductive beings. This piece speaks to how women are treated and disrespected — their reproductive constitutional rights have been stripped away, their societal worth is dismissed and devalued while they are glorified and fetishized as mothers and sexual objects — like a trophy animal that is skinned, spread-eagled and thrown on the floor to be trodden upon.
