Description

This sculptural high heel transforms a familiar symbol of femininity and allure into a provocative exploration of power, sexuality, and performance. The elegant shoe is elevated by a phallic heel, destabilising the seductive glamour traditionally associated with the stiletto form. Splashes of vivid orange and yellow glaze erupt across the surface like flames or bruises, evoking heat, tension, and emotional intensity.
The work examines how female identity is shaped through desire, consumption, and patriarchal expectations, using humour and exaggeration to expose the uneasy relationship between empowerment and objectification. The bright, expressive colour palette contrasts with the confrontational symbolism, creating an object that is simultaneously playful and unsettling. Through distortion and ceramic transformation, the shoe becomes both fetishised object and critical statement—questioning the structures of dominance and attraction embedded within contemporary representations of femininity.