Trash Can

Sculpture, 2026

The opening of this trash can is modeled after my own C-section scar. It is labeled: General Waste. After a C-section, and a second surgery caused by infection, my body was left with a long, permanent scar. Childbirth changed it irreversibly. The work speaks to a cruel logic that treats women who have given birth as used, damaged, or disposable. A public figure once said he did not want to have sex with women who had already had children, after getting multiple women pregnant and moving on. The scar becomes not only a mark of birth, but also a mark of injury, judgment, and rupture.

Please use this as a normal trash can. Throw your trash here. No liquid, please.