The works were made with basic materials: “quite cheap” paper, paints and brushes, as well as kinesiology tape, an adhesive that Lafarge, who has the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, uses to provide support to her joints and ligaments. Seeing as the tape needs to be cut in very specific ways, it leaves behind distinctive butterfly-shaped remnants that Lafarge repurposed into decorative elements. The watercolours will be accompanied by a poem cycle inspired by William Blake’s The Sick Rose and the 13th-century text The Romance of the Rose, drawing on the principles of courtly love to tell the allegorical story of a relationship in which pain is characterised as an “intoxicating, sometimes quite violent” lover.