Amelia LaChance: Arizona based artist

Ceramic sculpture on hand sewn pillow

approx. 13" x 19" x "8

Starting from an analysis of personal gynecological experiences, I became interested in the way women are disconnected from their bodies as a result of the historical and ongoing gender disparities against them within the medical system. How do I and other women navigate our bodies as an entity that is hidden, foreign, familiar and sacred? How do our bodies relate to the cold harshness of the tools that are used on them? Feeling this disconnection within my own experiences, these questions became central to my practice. 

In diving deeper into centuries of anatomical knowledge and treatment of women’s bodies, I began creating imagery of fantasies born of my own layers of curiosity, discomfort, and inspiration from historical witches and madonnas.