about
textiles as metaphors for care
My work investigates the imprints left in textiles—the traces of labour, care, and histories embedded in every seam. Through handwork, visible mending, and material storytelling, I explore how garments function as working-class archives and how wearers can reclaim agency over their clothes. By reassembling discarded textiles, inscribing them with text, and embedding interactive elements like NFC chips, I invite wearers to engage beyond consumption—to recognise the labour in their clothing, contribute their own imprints, and transform passive ownership into active world-building. Garments result from a tacit collaboration between the seamstress and the user.
Repair is not just an act of care for oneself and our clothes, but it is an act of unforgetting and celebration of the lives that shape our worlds. A way to resist the cycles of exploitation that ask us to consume suffering. Visible mending and embellishing our clothes becomes a practice of publishing ourselves on the public canvas of cloth—to find comrades in the silent resistance of care. If Ornaments are crimes - let us commit crimes and ornament ourselves.
My methodologies are rooted in material engagement, collective making, and critical reflection. I work through hand-based techniques—visible mending, reassembly, and inscription—to reveal the hidden labour in textiles and explore garments as archives of working-class histories. Workshops create spaces for communal practice, where participants engage in repair and embellishment as acts of agency and resistance. In tailoring, I experiment with text and textile recomposition to challenge passive consumption, while my costume design focuses on the performative potential of garments to carry and communicate lived experience. Across these approaches, my work foregrounds care as a methodological tool—both in craft and in the relationships it fosters.
My methodologies are rooted in material engagement, collective making, and critical reflection. I work through hand-based techniques—visible mending, reassembly, and inscription—to reveal the hidden labour in textiles and explore garments as archives of working-class histories. Workshops create spaces for communal practice, where participants engage in repair and embellishment as acts of agency and resistance. In tailoring, I experiment with text and textile recomposition to challenge passive consumption, while my costume design focuses on the performative potential of garments to carry and communicate lived experience. Across these approaches, my work foregrounds care as a methodological tool—both in craft and in the relationships it fosters.