COLONY COLLAPSE

silk worm cocoons, handwoven linen

30” x 32”

Under the guise of witch
men systematically 
persecuted women who 
held knowledge or power
killing midwives and healers
unmaking entire matriarchal communities. 

Hundreds of farmed silk cocoons 
were dyed black
sliced open to display 
the empty shells, husks left 
by the worms when they were 
forcibly removed 
before fully transforming.