Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide: An Emotional Repair Manual

An artist's book using appropriated domestic repair manuals to question the contemporary culture of self-repair, where emotional resilience is increasingly treated as an individual DIY project.

Using found imagery from vintage Reader's Digest home-improvement guide, The Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide: An Emotional Repair Manual rewrites practical instructions through the lens of millennial emotional vocabulary. It explores how millennials have inherited a culture that expects them to patch, optimise, and renovate themselves in order to keep functioning. Humour becomes a tool to examine burnout, boundaries, grief, and the endless project of "working on yourself."