In Stripped, the artist explores the unsettling connections between the exploitation of women's bodies and the extraction of natural resources from the Earth. Using cast iron, a material associated with industrial processes and permanence, the work evokes the harsh realities of strip mining. The form suggests the body as a landscape, exposed and vulnerable, paralleling the way the feminine form is consumed through objectification. The artist critiques the relentless consumption of both the land and the female body, highlighting how both are treated as commodities, stripped of their intrinsic value and dignity.
