Artist: Kassie-Anne Kalloo
9” x 12”
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Description: This piece explores the layered realities of women living with physical and mental disabilities while navigating womanhood and the menstrual experience. Through symbolic imagery, I chose to portray a healthy reproductive system, replacing eggs with flowers and pomegranates, established symbols of femininity, life and renewal. The faceless figures, skeletal hand, dismembered forms and hidden tent-like structure beneath the womb reflect the silent fragmentation of identity that can occur when a woman becomes defined first by disability rather than by self. The spilling pomegranate seeds symbolize an ongoing search for healing, rejuvenation and wholeness, while the darkened tones and wilted floral elements speak to exhaustion, repression and the physical realities tied to womanhood. Together the flora and fractured figures create a contrast between life and struggle, emphasizing resilience, invisible battles and the persistence of identity beneath societal labels.
Artist: Kassie-Anne Kalloo
9” x 12”
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Description: This piece explores the layered realities of women living with physical and mental disabilities while navigating womanhood and the menstrual experience. Through symbolic imagery, I chose to portray a healthy reproductive system, replacing eggs with flowers and pomegranates, established symbols of femininity, life and renewal. The faceless figures, skeletal hand, dismembered forms and hidden tent-like structure beneath the womb reflect the silent fragmentation of identity that can occur when a woman becomes defined first by disability rather than by self. The spilling pomegranate seeds symbolize an ongoing search for healing, rejuvenation and wholeness, while the darkened tones and wilted floral elements speak to exhaustion, repression and the physical realities tied to womanhood. Together the flora and fractured figures create a contrast between life and struggle, emphasizing resilience, invisible battles and the persistence of identity beneath societal labels.