Twisted Stiletto 

2016 

Leather, cordwaining materials 

7 × 12 × 30 cm 

Twisted Stiletto is a sculptural footwear object that exposes the potential disparity between external presentation and internal state. The heel is contorted against its expected vertical alignment, producing a form that appears poised yet fundamentally unstable.

Operating as a piece of design fiction, the work proposes an alternative reality to the perfected, desirable surface that fashion often promises. The distortion resists visual resolution, suggesting a condition that is psychologically fixed rather than materially enforced. Viewers frequently register the twist somatically, sensing tension or strain in their own bodies, as if the object were asking them to inhabit its contortion. 

In this way, Twisted Stiletto frames footwear as a diagram of embodied pressure, referencing the effort required to conform to archetypal ideals of femininity and composure. The object holds this condition in suspension, offering no corrective movement or release.