Description

Elegant yet absurd, this ceramic high heel with its oversized blue heel exaggerates both the beauty standard and the burden it carries. Balancing Act reflects the precarious nature of femininity as performance where grace is demanded, but the foundations are often unwieldy, unstable, or outsized heel, disproportionately large and visually dominant, symbolizes the weight of social expectation: the pressure to remain poised, polished, and pleasing, even when the support structure is impractical or performative. 

The piece questions what women are asked to uphold and at what personal cost to meet ideals not of their own making. Is the wearer empowered or simply adapting to a system not built for her?