What We Carry
2023-2024
Clothing tags, Recycled Textiles, Found Objects
This piece celebrates the things we carry with us in our day to day lives, examining the functionality of clothing as well as the stories that clothes and possessions can tell. The work features found and ready made objects donated to me by friends and family including keys, keychains, wallets, lighters, matches, lipgloss, pocketknives, contraceptives, coins, and wrappers. The fire motif plays with sexual innuendo as well as themes of environmental damage caused by clothing overuse. This piece is focused on the duality of garments, showing how they can be loved, personalized, patched and repaired, and utilized in our day to day life, rather than simply worn and discarded as waste.
2023-2024
Clothing tags, Recycled Textiles, Found Objects
This piece celebrates the things we carry with us in our day to day lives, examining the functionality of clothing as well as the stories that clothes and possessions can tell. The work features found and ready made objects donated to me by friends and family including keys, keychains, wallets, lighters, matches, lipgloss, pocketknives, contraceptives, coins, and wrappers. The fire motif plays with sexual innuendo as well as themes of environmental damage caused by clothing overuse. This piece is focused on the duality of garments, showing how they can be loved, personalized, patched and repaired, and utilized in our day to day life, rather than simply worn and discarded as waste.