Project Description
Lorena Bobbitt
This piece was years in the making, layering Lorena Bobbitt’s face over and over again on-top of it self, until it became a Human mask, both beautiful and disturbing, deeply insightful and yet forever a barrier. The reality of the circumstances involved deepen and broaden the content.
John Wayne Bobbitt and Lorena Bobbitt were an American couple married on June 18, 1989 whose relationship made world-wide headlines in 1993 when, after years of being allegedly raped (he was acquitted on the rape charge), beaten, and sodomized by her husband, Lorena cut off his penis with a knife while he was asleep in bed. The penis was subsequently surgically reattached. Years after the incident, John was convicted of beating two other women and of theft.
Appropriated Found Object Media Repurposed.
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