scabbing is a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist and writer Barbara Alicia Astronomo, on view at Mount Royal Tavern from July 3 to August 5, 2025. Through raw and ritualistic paintings, drawings, and poems, Astronomo explores the violence of healing — the scab as both barrier and bridge, evidence of survival and site of return. The exhibition traces themes of language, ancestry, control, self-harm, and the body as archive, offering a deeply personal mythology that invites viewers to look closer — inward, outward, and toward each other — to shape new languages of care, resistance, and kinship.