Holly Richards
‘The home I neglected' is a body of work the explores my relationship with my body. It is part of a body of work that explores escapism and where I run to when my fight or flight trigger kicks in and where I choose to run from my various traumas. Primarily explored through poetry, print and sculpture, it looks at the various location I run to and my then imposed relationship with them. For this specific series I looked at what I was running from. Over the course of the duration of isolation I realised the biggest trauma I was running from, a sexual assault. While being stuck inside I had no escape from the body I so badly resented, I had no where to run to thus making me look at the home I was in, my body. Confronting my coping mechanism of running away head on and really exploring what my relationship was with my body.