Pink Flamingo by Ambre Kalène

Pink Flamingo
Oil on canvas 120 cm / 100 cm – 2019
Many women are ruining themselves to buy more and more famous brand of shoes with higher and higher heels.
Some men are crazy, raising these extravagant shoes to the rank of fetishes.
Yet they are only instruments of torture that force the feet to deform them into hideous stumps, and twist the backs of women to make them disabled.
Why should a woman look like a wading bird to be attractive?
Why do you want to force your body to distort it?
The elegant flamingos are waders by nature.
Would they want to be even higher, and for that to wear stiletto heels? At risk of not being able to feed, because their neck would not be long enough to reach the bottom of the basin.
Or would they prefer to cut their legs to look like majestic swans?
No, they are just waders. But not us.