The ten Anklets which comprise this piece/performance speak of an inheritance of restriction and submission through both their form and material. Referencing the enormous, movement restricting, beaded Ndebele anklets worn by women, this piece is molded from rubber and black-eyed peas, created to envelop the legs and ankles of the wearer. Not only are the beans literally constrained by the rubber encasing them, they are themselves restraining the wearer, symbolically referencing the fact that black-eyed peas have “…always played a central role in African agriculture and... [were] brought with slaves to the Americas…” (Albala. Beans: A History.pp. 117).