The Blue Orchid

felt, iron, paper, cotton

20 x 30 cm

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It is known that the fig leaf was used to cover up the sexual organs in art, according to a culture where it was vulgar the whole nudity.
I think that the censure makes the hidden part more visible, because it doesn't cancel the "shame", but underline its presence, and amplify the shame concept. But why do we consider something as shameful? What makes something shameful? Ages of anachronistic culture in which we have been educated.
In a feminist perspective, the vagina is still today a subject of shame, repulsion, something which must be hidden ("close your legs", "cover up yourself", "that skirt is too short", and many other common phases used for girls).
This fig leaf has the appearance of a vagina, to remind us that what we has been taught to censor is something we shouldn't be ashamed of.