Hammer of the Witch, 2025 

Materials: Oil paint, gold gilding, glass and ceramic tiles, synthetic hair, papier-mâché, and sea shells.

Size: 51 x 51 × 6 in

Short Description:
This work addresses the persecution of women’s bodies, knowledge, sexuality, and spiritual authority. The witch becomes a figure of fear because she carries a form of knowing that cannot be easily controlled: knowledge of plants, birth, blood, death, pleasure, healing, and the unseen. Around her are shells, horns, feathers, bones, skulls, astrological markings, and tarot-like symbols — objects and systems often demonized as dangerous, irrational, or forbidden. Here, they return as sacred tools. The work asks what happens when the body that was once hunted becomes the body that remembers.