Fray/ed is an exploration of the concept/definition of the word “fray”. Clothes fray from age, ongoing strain frays nerves, societal structures are fraying, there is a fray of activity, don’t jump into the fray.

On daily walks during the pandemic, the artist encountered foliage that had fallen to the ground, decaying, with frayed edges. Through these objects, she understood that her own nerves were being pulled apart from loneliness & loss, watching the news, seeing evidence of fray/ed everywhere.

Fray/ed is an attempt to capture a state of transformation. It strives to both pull at the thread as well as stitch pieces back together. Fray/ed is witnessing the burden we bear in the pain of being human in chaotic times. Yet, whatever was whole cannot be put back together again the way it was before. Fray/ed is part of the circle of life, where whole turns to decay turns to whole again.

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