Diary of a piglet. 🐷🐽🐷🐽 (Patreon)

My tail was snipped off the other week 😭😭😭. I’ve been running around crazy trying to find it.

The Severed Tail interrogates the complex relationship we have toward the loss of human and animal tails, either through violent acts of docking or the evolutionary loss of our own tail during the foetal stage.

At around 8 weeks, our embryonic tail disappears and is absorbed into our tailbone. In the animal world, tails are often docked (removed) to prevent tail-biting or a build-up of faeces.

Piglet is played by human Kiani, a (not-so) trained live piglet, and a preserved dead piglet

Photos by Krystian Lipiec and me.

Marianna x