Adrienne Turk

Super Uterus

Lake Worth, Florida

I was emailed a link to a call for artists for this show two days after my beautiful eight-year old daughter suffered a blood and traumatic bike injury in which she badly bruised her vagina and tore her labia.  Her concern for her future ability to reproduce and the sheer pain of the injury were heartbreaking.  Two weeks later she was back to regular physical activity with the medical assurance that her injury was purely cosmetic, once again proving the amazing resiliency of the female body.  As a result, I created ‘Super Uterus’, a playful and poetic response involving hours of meditative, repetitive sewing and binding into which I channeled the all-consuming and almost unbearable stress of the unknown and potentially catastrophic.