Nyokabi Kariũki

Life is short. Recovery is long.

The peak of the COVID pandemic reduced most of us to a half-space, limbo between reality and absurdism. And those who dealt with the ravages of long COVID, their bodies thrown into flux by the longtail effects of the virus, feel even further into the liminal. Composer Nyokabi Kariũki contracted COVID, then felt her body stammer. Over months of recovery, her life came to a standstill, even as the world demanded she move forward. Endless emails, friends who no longer asked how she was doing, her own internal doubts all flooded her mind. But, part of her recovery was FEELING BODY, an avant-beauty primarily composed for voice that sifts through the haze COVID, and society, encased Kariũki in.