What we deem ‘safe’ in women’s bodies versus men’s reveals a stark double standard. Google ‘man nipples’ with safe search on, and you’ll find endless pages of bare male torsos. Google ‘woman nipples’ and you get bras and cartoons. This discrepancy isn’t about anatomy—it’s about how women’s bodies are treated as inherently sexual, their identity inseparable from the male gaze.

This work makes a simple argument: a nipple is just a nipple. The censorship is arbitrary and dangerous in a world where women’s health education and breast cancer awareness depend on open access to information about our own bodies.

I wrote some code to generate random clusters of circles with varying densities, plotted them with a pen plotter (a little robot arm that holds a pen) on watercolour paper, then painted over them with watercolours and using the uncensored search results as reference.