This piece is about how home repeats itself, and what queerness I take with me when I move from Pittsburgh to RISD to Brown. The couch is what I think of from my childhood when I imagine the aesthetics of home. Wherever I go, I queer the spaces by extension of my fashioning, I transform the mundanity and rigidity into an ironic form of expression. I take this repetition of "home" and command it to welcome me.
These pants are bleached denim with hand-dyed couch pattern in pink. In addition to denim, the red fabric is cut from the very couch which inspired the pattern. Top is beaded with broken disco ball.
Photoshoot on IKEA Ektorp couch, in the style of the couch illustrated on pants, on my driveway in the neighborhood which I grew up in that helped my conceptualization.
Design of these images intends to draw focus to the queerness and pride I have within the "suburban" space.
If given the time and money, here is the collection development with which I would continue this project.
These are patterns about the repetition of home that I would explore if given the money to digitally print fabric or get them woven. The glass bear, simple watch, and crystal pattern is object based from my childhood. The bed and chair is setting based from how I create my dorm room. The pong table piece is socially based, how I live in and enjoy basement settings as sources of life. The couch pattern, which originated the hand-dye process on the pants, is furniture based on how I imagine my home from a nostalgic point of view.
The fronts and backs of an 8 piece collection encapsulating the themes and concepts I'm attempting to emulate.
Sketches of how I hope they may appear in real life, embodied by me.
