One’s Coats of Armours is a search for alternative forms of representation of belonging – a cartography of ancestries and kindredness, rendered in the vocabulary of heraldry. The coat of arms, a symbol of genealogical power narratives, transformed it into an instrument of self-questioning. The working class replaces the nobility, queer connections replace patriarchal lineages, and personal narratives replace rigid rules, using the corset of heraldry to break through it.

Together, these three coats of arms form an alternative chronicle – an archive of symbology that traces the course of lived experiences. This work employs the visual grammar of heraldry to expand the constructs of families, ancestries, and identities. One‘s Coats of Armours interrogates how affiliations can be established when old orders become fractured. How we carry, protect and pass on our stories – in symbols that are both armour and revelation.