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- ItemVulnerability laid bare, a dialect without utterance: the pursuit of an arcane thread of liminality(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12) Lapping-Sellars, Rosemary; Gunter, Elizabeth; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It has been the harbinger of global chilling - the prelude to the winter of despair. The malevolent plague of Covid-19 has caught the populace off guard, spreading widespread bedlam and fear, thereby exposing the very underbelly of human vulnerability. The rapid spread of this life-threatening virus has been debilitating the harmony of daily routine and sending habitual practice into disarray. This study pursues the notion of a dialect without utterance, and the scrutiny to see whether marks and signs of dis-ease can be detected in both the two-and three-dimensional art form I am making. It is a probe to recognise signs of vulnerability, those which are registered by way of an arcane trace, a sequential thread embedded in the gestures and marks of abject frailty. Covid-19 and all the complications of a plague have provided the backdrop for my research. The practice-based study for this master’s degree is essentially motivated by way of visual expression and the written theory attached has provided the verbal substructure, the motivation, and the explanation that underpins this thesis.