Unsanctioned Splendor

UNSANCTIONEDSPLENDOR

Caroline Federle’s “Unsanctioned Splendor” explores the complexity of female genitalia

words by dominique stewart design by lauren park

There was a blueprint. An unshakable ideology that clouded our minds when it came to genetalia.

More specifically, the vagina. So much so that as a whole, we were stagnant in the beliefs surrounding how it should look and smell. Any deviation was rejected. And talks of taste, trauma, mutilation, ownership, desire and who could have one were deemed repugnant. Even today, the conversations would be considered taboo by those who police them. And any art would be a mere act of rebellion.