Tamara Poff

The figures are layered and fractured, almost as if pieced together from different selves. This fragmentation mirrors the way women’s identities and bodily autonomy are being treated as political battlegrounds—split between their lived realities and the imposed roles or moral codes dictated by lawmakers. The predominance of green, often associated with both life and suppression, heightens the tension. The unnatural green cast across the skin evokes the distortion of what should be natural, echoing the distortion of women’s rights under restrictive policies. The flashes of warm red and yellow beneath the surface read as suppressed vitality—life and power that still burn beneath constraint.