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This sculpture synthesizes elements of traditional Baulé reliquary figures with South Asian aesthetics to create an amalgam of feminist iconography, a feminist deity who will bless our reproductive choices in an ocean of patriarchal religions that deny those with wombs agency over our bodies. Improvising from the formal elements of the reliquary figurines, traditional elements of Indian sculptural traditions and using non traditional materials, this work is born of lived experience. The number of figures corresponds to my own abortions. The smaller figures are traced from the body of my child and the central one is traced from that of my husband, whose parents own the original that inspired this work