Australian artist Eugenie Lee evokes the chronic pain of endometriosis in high-tech experiential artworks
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Lee lives with endometriosis and adenomyosis and has experienced pelvic pain for nearly three decades.
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Eugenie Lee has strapped a thick, strange-looking belt, a kind of torture device, to gynaecologist and endocrinologist Dr Natasha Andreadis.
The custom-built haptic device gives the wearer pelvic pain-like sensations, and at first, Dr Andreadis s descriptions of the experience are fairly innocuous: I m feeling like my organs, woah, are really getting a deep massage.
But once Lee ratchets up the intensity level, Dr Andreadis says it s like someone s punching you and they ve got spikes on their knuckles .