Wearable Sculpture: Leather
Black-and-white photograph looking down at a prosthetic leg. A large curved cow horn, encapsulated by a sewn sculptural swirl of black leather, emerges from the knee, curling upward and inward. The leather coils around the carbon-fiber prosthetic knee, with the metal connection and pylon tube visible below
The work considers the spectacle of disability and the ways a disabled body can become something publicly watched, interpreted, and performed. By turning the prosthesis into an exaggerated sculptural appendage, the piece shifts that gaze: rather than attempting to disguise bodily difference, it deliberately produces something excessive, animal, ornamental, protective, and impossible to overlook.
The curved horn carries the appearance of danger without functioning as a conventional weapon. It suggests armor, warning, territorial display, self-protection, and offense—an invented anatomy built around a body often culturally imagined as vulnerable. The horn is not only a shield but also a gesture of confrontation, asserting the possibility of threat, resistance, and retaliation. The piece turns the gaze back outward, transforming spectacle into agency and vulnerability into a form of embodied power.