"Hustera" (ὑστέρα) is the ancient Greek word for "womb" or "uterus" and is the root of medical terms like "hysterectomy" and the now-outdated concept of "hysteria".

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Shaping the pelvis—the center of life force—into an expanded form, I layered it with plastic bags to create ripples of skin. ​I was exploring the conflicted relationship I experience within my own body, originating from the emotional turmoil felt during periods of intense PMS/PMDD. This hormonal shifting would leave me completely psychologically scattered, as though my entire body was unsafe, detached, ugly, and where my uterus became its own world, and my psyche separated from it.

 

The plastic bags, a pollutant material which carries and holds, and which is discarded but equally durable and light, becomes a stand-in skin for a womb that carries a weight of responsibility, yet holds an affect of deep non-belonging.​​