Y’s
Overgrown
on the entanglement of women and nature
A nine-image lens-based project using the female face to examine ecofeminism. Structured as a lunar eclipse sequence, it visualises escalating intervention—from harmony to extraction—to critique how patriarchal society and industrial systems regulate, exploit, and consume both women’s bodies and nature as interconnected sites of control.
Introduction
Drawing on ecofeminist perspectives, this work examines how patriarchy constructs both the female body and nature as objects to be managed, controlled, and consumed. The female face becomes a particularly intensified site of this process, where standards are continuously imposed and internalised for women.
Through a structured lunar eclipse formation, the images move from partial visibility to full exposure and back to side face implicitly. This progression reflects cycles of control, transformation, and oppression, suggesting that visibility is not neutral yet regulated.
The use of make-up functions not as decoration but as intervention, which marks stages of natural condition, alteration, distortion, and breakdown. These visual disruptions challenge the assumption of a stable, idealised face.
By focusing on repetition and gradual change, the work resists singular representation and instead constructs a collective body, where each image contributes to a broader narrative of pressure, adaptation, and resistance.