Escapism

Who’s been there? You spend twenty minutes tying the cleanest, prettiest gote of your life… and the person in ropes looks at you, shrugs, and casually wiggles themselves out like it was never that serious. Humbling. Kind of funny. And devinately annoying.

This workshop leans directly into that irony: shibari is often not inherently inescapable. So what happens when we stop pretending it does? Escapism is a lab-based, curious, slightly mean-spirited exploration of tying specifically for the purpose of not being able to get out. Not decorative rope. Not “it’ll probably hold.” Rope designed to trap, frustrate, and quietly ruin someone’s confidence in their escape talent.

We’ll fuck around with:

• Minimal rope vs. obscene amounts of rope
• Simple ideas pushed way too far
• Predicaments that look stupid until you’re inside them
• Mean little concepts that rely more on physics, leverage, and bad choices than pretty patterns
• What if the smartest escape route becomes the worst option?
• What if struggling actively makes things harder?
• What if the tie isn’t complex at all — just deeply unfair?

Expect experiments. Some will work. Some will fail hilariously.