Shibari Friendship Bracelet for the Toronto Feminist Art Conference & Nuit Rose

"Weaving Our Pains to Dress Each Other: the craft and friendship of feminine dominance" - friendship bracelet made of bondage rope, with Kikkou (tortoise shell body harness) and Mune nawa (breast bondage) kinbaku/"shibari" forms.

My installation piece with video projection mapping for "What the F?" at the Toronto Feminist Art Conference. An exploration of power exchange and the art/healing work of sex work -- an art, like many forms of feminine art such as weaving and herbalism, that have not been recognized as art.

My zine and spoken word piece talks about what it was like as a 16-year-old runaway and Chinatown dominatrix, playing a role in exploring the childhood trauma of adult men, while still a child myself. How my practice has evolved to incorporate a professional ethic of care and boundary-setting, and what the adult-me is still grappling with in terms of the bond between pain/love, performing parental power, and holding space for freedom.

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