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Empress is an original nylons on hook fiber artwork by Lucine Kaplan, created in 2024.
Shipping is billed separately and is not included in the artwork price. Lucine will send a separate shipping invoice after purchase.
An exploration of foot binding, inherited traditions and the hope that future generations of women can move freely.
Artist: Lucine Kaplan
Year: 2024
Collection: Ripping the Seams — In Her Shoes
Dimensions: 24 × 18 inches
Medium: Original nylons on hook fiber artwork
One original artwork available
For collection enquiries and delivery arrangements, contact she@lucinevisions.art.
EMPRESS (200 A.D.)
Binding my feet into these regal shoes
As an ancestor, I pray my lineage will choose
the day where women’s feet are unnecessary to
blister
It’s sinister
I bear the pain for my culture
carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders
But the customs of this royalty
and power is to honor those who came before me
The women who quietly
held the foundation of history
They stood obeying, toes curled beneath
the sole of their feet
in rooms of men so I could walk out the door
easily
Today, I walk in these
shoes so my daughters can run free
with dignity
Unfurling
The lotus on my stockings remind me
May both individually
AND generationally
we grow through the muck to blossom in our
highest form of divinity
Empress is an original nylons on hook fiber artwork by Lucine Kaplan, created in 2024.
Shipping is billed separately and is not included in the artwork price. Lucine will send a separate shipping invoice after purchase.
An exploration of foot binding, inherited traditions and the hope that future generations of women can move freely.
Artist: Lucine Kaplan
Year: 2024
Collection: Ripping the Seams — In Her Shoes
Dimensions: 24 × 18 inches
Medium: Original nylons on hook fiber artwork
One original artwork available
For collection enquiries and delivery arrangements, contact she@lucinevisions.art.
EMPRESS (200 A.D.)
Binding my feet into these regal shoes
As an ancestor, I pray my lineage will choose
the day where women’s feet are unnecessary to
blister
It’s sinister
I bear the pain for my culture
carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders
But the customs of this royalty
and power is to honor those who came before me
The women who quietly
held the foundation of history
They stood obeying, toes curled beneath
the sole of their feet
in rooms of men so I could walk out the door
easily
Today, I walk in these
shoes so my daughters can run free
with dignity
Unfurling
The lotus on my stockings remind me
May both individually
AND generationally
we grow through the muck to blossom in our
highest form of divinity
