society's womb by cailin alcock

09/2023

society's womb

digital illustration

A detached torso, stripped of all other functionalities, for the sole purpose of incubating another body.

The spine splitting through the skin,


exposes the backs of women, beaten and broken for society's reassurance of their arthritic values.


A protected fetus from the murderous mothers, to be birthed with a rifle in one hand and the other chained to the institution, until breeding begins again.

Bodies utilized as weaponized currency,


human rights, medicine and science, whimsically thrown from reality, only to settle among the masses of mindless festering sheep - putrifying in their vats of self-importance.

Mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters—remotely valued only when endorsed with their service roles to the patriarch—forced to flee, gestate, suffer, bleed, break, and die.