Through embedding time-based media focusing on repetitive action within a necklace constructed via a repetitive methodology, we explore ideas around recurrence, the body, and protection in relation to trauma. The necklace’s knotted chain and fleshy clay planes are evocative of armor that protects sites of the body which are vulnerable. On the clay planes, actions of the body and between bodies repeat through video. Just as the necklace physically protects, the act of repeating locates psychic stability or protection in the wake of trauma.  

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