Both crafted and exhibited in the home environment, this exhibition of works responded to, and evolved throughout, periods of induced isolation. The novel and unruly COVID-19 virus created further tension for the already vulnerable body. Frayed Bodies positioned the concept and aesthetic of something undoing into numerous pieces, as a mode of reclaiming identification from all that consumes it.

Concerned with the un/known and un/predictable aspects of my bodily conditions and being in the world, I searched for ways to inhabit the spaces in between. By entangling myself with my materials, I enforced my embodied faults and fears away from my own body onto bodies of materials that represent it. Through using concepts of multiplicity, Frayed Bodies decenters the idea of the stable, unified self. Using processes of multiplying, splitting and fraying, I grappled with the notion of the self and the unresolvable contradictions between the discrete and distinct.