HALF-LIFE

The decaying garments are the uncertainty my generation has about the future. The weathered textiles are a response to helplessness, fragility, and harsh conditions that I anticipate . The brutal aesthetic evokes a violent and resource-deficient future where femininity must adapt. Integral resources will run out. Fragile, sensitive things will decompose as they are used and left in the sun.

 

This work is an exercise in accepting time as a collaborator. Stemming from a research interest in how naturally dyed textiles decompose in the archive, this work claims that decomposition and destruction, active or passive, are forms of making. In the process of making I have found beauty in both a pursuit of permanence and a welcoming of ephemerality.