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Chopped

Vintage Hand-Cut Collage | 8x10 | $350.00. Represents the sometimes ridiculous Western beauty standards that women are oppressed by across different generations, highlighting how the cultural bar is constantly changing. By slicing up women's bodies from different eras — including iconic clippings of Courtney Love and Uma Thurman — to construct an artificial form, the collage exposes how these shifting standards mirror the psychological coercion, hidden traps, and manipulation used by predators to fragment a woman's identity. The title draws directly from Gen Z slang, meaning to be visually compromised, broken down, or deemed "unattractive," while simultaneously honoring William Shakespeare, who pioneered the concept of "chopped logic" to describe contentious, deceptive, and fractured reasoning. This physical act of "chopping" the female form reveals how both modern culture and toxic relationships reduce women into consumable, disconnected pieces rather than whole human beings. An artwork image was not included in the original catalog.