Endlessly rerouted

Simone Winder and Isabel Heatley

Fashion & Jewellery – Linking Bodies

Textile sculpture

 

Imagine you are walking down a street. Signs appear, urging you to take a different route. But no matter how diligently you follow the detours, you always end up back where you started – or even further from your destination. Endlessly rerouted, the body gets lost in the noise of other people’s assumptions and judgements.

 This is how prejudice works in the face of hidden disabilities, clouding the connection to one’s own quiet knowing.

 These signs, placed on the body like a second skin, are meant to guide, but instead they distract and disturb. They sink into the skin, becoming a map of misdirection.