YOU WILL NEVER HURT ME AGAIN

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YOU WILL NEVER HURT ME AGAIN

Trigger Warnings: Sharps, Violence, Assault

Date: 5Dec2022
Alter: Chloe
Material: Plywood, Paint pen, Knife
Size: 72cm*72cm

When we were assaulted, premeditated or not, sexual or physical, our feeling of safety went away. We can’t walk outside at night without something to defend ourselves. We are always so on edge and paranoid someone is going to come up from behind us. Even when our back is to a wall. But then we also don’t want to get cornered. It is so difficult to get that feeling of safety back. One common method though, self-defense training. This can either be with a trainer or taking a piece of wood, drawing a target, and teaching ourselves knife throwing. Because if anyone is going to try to hurt us ever again, they’re not getting out unscathed. We won’t let them.

A wooden board with a silhouette with different target areas on it. The shoulder area reads "YOU WILL NEVER HURT ME AGAIN". Underneath that carved into the wood is "I WONT LET YOU" Along the main body are hundreds of knife slashes and nicks from throwing knives on two X-shaped spots above the silhouette on the left and right side. In the center of the head is a karambit sticking out of the wood.
A wooden board with a silhouette with different target areas on it. The shoulder area reads "YOU WILL NEVER HURT ME AGAIN". Underneath that carved into the wood is "I WONT LET YOU" Along the main body are hundreds of knife slashes and nicks from throwing knives on two X-shaped spots above the silhouette on the left and right side. In the center of the head is a karambit sticking out of the wood.
The YOU WILL NEVER HURT ME AGAIN piece from the right 45 profile view to better show the karambit sticking out of the wood. It is black and purple and has a galaxy design on the blade. It also reveals the depth of the slashes into the wood.
The YOU WILL NEVER HURT ME AGAIN piece from the right 45 profile view to better show the karambit sticking out of the wood. It is black and purple and has a galaxy design on the blade. It also reveals the depth of the slashes into the wood.

Installations

Devices and Descriptors - 8May2023

The piece YOU WILL NEVER HURT ME AGAIN. Next to it is a wall label with a QR code to the page you are currently reading.
The piece YOU WILL NEVER HURT ME AGAIN. Next to it is a wall label with a QR code to the page you are currently reading.