In Chastity Belt, Tori Mitchell creates a charged moment suspended between protection and possession. A crouched figure reaches toward the lock of a metal belt—her expression unreadable, her intentions unclear. Is she offering liberation or enforcing restraint? The ambiguity of this gesture echoes the medieval device’s own complex legacy as both a mythologized symbol of virtue and a tool of control. Drawing on the visual language of devotional painting and courtly myth, Mitchell overlays personal narrative onto historical imagery, reframing the object as a site of erotic tension and queer agency. The painting holds space for both tenderness and power play, refusing resolution in favor of layered psychological charge.