WARNING - MAY OFFEND OR GROSS YOU OUT
As you can probably tell, alot of my work is some kind of representation or illustration of my feelings and reactions to the tradition in China, of binding the feet to make them excessively small.
I've done alot of research about this subject for a project at college, and some of the things I've discovered are down right shocking.
The process of binding the feet involved pulling back the smallest four toes, using bindings to hold them in place under the foot. These bandages were tightened every couple of weeks or so, made tighter and tighter. The whole time, the girl, who was only about 6, was made to