At first glance, the ornate floral wallpaper and birthday medallion suggest celebration, yet the work unsettles with its fractured imagery. At the center, a nude female body is broken into three parts, glimpsed through a vintage viewfinder—a gesture that exposes how women’s bodies are framed, consumed, and commodified.

The title echoes recent revelations: a “birthday book” assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th, filled with letters and images from powerful figures, including an alleged note from Donald Trump featuring a crude drawing of a woman. Though later denied, the artifact illustrates the entanglement of politics, privilege, and abuse, where women’s bodies became tokens of male power and secrecy.

By embedding this reference in a decorative domestic frame, the piece exposes the dissonance between surface beauty and hidden violence. The broken image and retro device recall voyeurism and complicity, urging viewers to confront how patriarchal networks protect themselves while exploiting others. The phrase “Happy Birthday” becomes ironic, marking not celebration but the persistence of corruption, denial, and the normalization of abuse among elites.