"According to Sri Lankan idiom, honeycomb is representative of the vagina and honey of menstrual blood. In this instance, these substances are used to simultaneously irritate and soothe the region over which the ovaries are located in the female body. Self-inflicted pain is performed to symbolically manufacture sympathy in response to diaspora and the diminished reproductive rights in post-civil war Sri Lanka—the my country of origin."
Dola Duka (2016)
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Kili (Ritual Impurity) (2016)
Facing the camera a female performer claws at her lower torso, washes herself, and finally covers herself in a light fabric.