Tie the Knot is a textile sculpture intended to embody the adolescent angst of growing up, particularly drawing from bridal imagery to mark the end of one’s “coming of age.” The haste for financial security in our neoliberal livelihoods culminates at the apex of taxation reprieve in the form of marriage (or common-law spousehood). Made to confront an increasingly grim future that forces upon us agonising decisions or offers an unbearably bleak guarantee of mindless living, the bride acts as a part of a greater ecosystem of us detritivores looking for a way to sustain ourselves.