What does it mean to embody? To re-birth yourself? To rise and return? When does the cycle of undoing and becoming end? Where is the threshold? When does the pain transform one last time?

One Year in Every Ten draws from Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus, exploring the the continual shedding and re-emergence of selfhood. It speaks to transformation that unfolds in the stillness between collapse and renewal, between surrender and awakening - something that happens in private, and in the quiet. The ways we unravel and return to ourselves - the persistent becoming that erupts.

It is a reflection of the moments the body and spirit, rises - simply to exist again. A visceral reclaiming of life, autonomy and power from beneath the weight. Another apparition from the archives. Caught in a space where the past does not stay still. Pressing against its restraint until it turns into release. Just another echo, and just another you.

“I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it—”
— Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus

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