Addiction 12 (Embodied Value)

This work stages an intimate confrontation between institutional value and embodied identity, layering the crisp authority of an Indian banknote against a translucent, womb-like form that feels simultaneously scientific specimen and private reliquary. The cool, official blues and typographic rigidity at the top are unsettled by the sinuous red filigree and organic staining below, as if bureaucracy has been pierced and made to bleed into lived experience. Suspended in the pale void, the central mass reads as a contested terrain—part gestation, part erosion—suggesting how femininity and desire are archived, priced, and policed under the quiet veneer of legality. The overall composition turns currency into a frame for vulnerability, where the tender interior refuses to be reduced to a denomination.