“Fertility and Conception” was a loose self-directed project involving photography and garment design and construction between 2020-2023. Inspiration is found among the many secret trails, clearings, and in-between spaces within the city. With the clashing of people, cultures, environments, and animals, the cityscape, filtered through her lens, becomes an uncanny and whimsical playground, fertile for discovery. The process for each wearable art piece begins by photographing objects found in one particular location, and environments in another. Via collecting and assemblage, she digitally compounds these disparate elements into a fresh composition, which speaks to experiencing multiple realities at once in the tech-digital age. The ecosystems of new life reflect on the anthropocentric phenomenon of experiencing flora, fauna, humans, objects, trash and remains of disparate origins that have reached their particular destinations as an effect of colonialism and hyper-globalization in the 21st century.
Each dress was made very slowly and with care. As the skin of the garment merges with the skin of the wearer, the tokens of mass death of our era achieve new life. While wearing the dress, the artist invites one to meditate on the preciousness and life of the object, as well as how the wearer fits into their own ecosystem, the effect they have on the environment around them. She hopes that through creating these objects of care, this practice can be an act of resistance against the mass production of throwaway assembly-line garments and objects. In joint with a community that continues to make cultural objects reflecting humanity, she hopes her work can exist outside of and separately from the cultures of mass production.