

Chastity Cage
12"x8"x6"; bronze, walnut, and white oak; 2022
Chastity Cage reimagines the kink of chastity as an object of agency rather than denial. Traditionally used to prevent erection and to enact submission through restraint, the chastity cage here becomes a sculptural celebration of chosen vulnerability and self-possession. Mounted on a walnut plaque, a white oak block anchors a welded bronze cage whose looping, phallic form projects outward, suspended between containment and display. Drawing from the visual language of trophies and devotional objects, the work reframes chastity as an offering, a deliberate act of giving sexuality away rather than having it taken. In this inversion, restraint becomes generative, producing power through consent, ritual, and visibility. The contrast between warm hardwoods and industrial bronze underscores the tension between control and desire, permanence and flesh. Chastity Cage positions submission not as absence, but as a form of authorship over one’s own erotic narrative.

