An Incomplete Gynecological History of Self (2025)

An Incomplete Gynecological History of Self, 2025

Artist’s book, edition of 1, 8 x 10 in, mixed media

Exhibited: Columbia University Undergraduate Final Showcase, 2025

An Incomplete Gynecological History of Self is a 142-page, ever-expanding index of the artist’s lived experiences with reproductive health. Structured in eight chapters—My Birth, Vah Yine Ah, Sex Ed-ish, Virginity, The Beginning of the End, Undoing, Unbaby, and The Window—the work charts a circular trajectory, beginning with the artist’s own birth and culminating in the visceral record of her abortion.

The book combines prose, journal entries spanning four years, and fragments of medical reality: ultrasound scans, prescriptions, diagnoses, and clinical paperwork. These intimate documents are interwoven with images from Unbaby I and abstract conceptual passages that mirror the disorientation of hospital settings and the slipping in and out of consciousness.

Materially, the work incorporates vellum and varied paper stocks, heightening the tactile and sensory experience of reading. It also contains a miniature, true-to-scale “iPhone book” that replicates the artist’s discovery of her first pregnancy and her urgent search for how to end it.

Designed with a clinical precision, the book stands as a living document of how healthcare encounters and bodily experiences inscribe themselves into a life—often more profoundly than the regulated milestones of schooling, coming of age, or professional achievement.