To Hold Selves

To Hold Selves is a sculpture, designed to be an unwearable neck collar. Drawing on Barzakh’s earliest design instincts—deconstruction and fragmentation—the piece resembles scaffolding undone: steel rods warped by relentless winds, bound together with scoby, a living membrane-like material. To Hold Selves appears to have endured countless histories, resulting in an appearance born from the accumulation of stories.