The Clothespin Mandala project deals with the phenomenon of human body modification, specifically in the form of suspending clothespins from one’s body. In Female Cluster and Male Cluster, I draw seven body fragments for each gender from photographs of my bare body and of a male model with clothespins attached in various patterns. The Wildlife Triptychs and Wildlife Portraits continue this investigation of body modification on paper with pencil, watercolor and mixed media by asking volunteers to pose individually and/or with their partner to create portraits or triptychs. These gender-specific clothespin clusters as well as the triptychs and portraits not only muse on the contemporary penchant for hanging, piercing and tattooing the body but also raise questions of identity and sexuality, demonstrating just how fine the line is between pain and pleasure.