The Proletarian highlights the ongoing battle between the body’s resilience to the toll that labor takes on the body through physical use and abuse. This piece is both a reflection of my own personal experiences as well as an observation of the human condition. No matter the task at hand there is always a cost of labor on the body and wear is inevitable. Using natural materials I personally harvested combined with found objects, the materials themselves represent another layer of this conversation: the intersection of the natural and industrial worlds.