— Textile Art, Installation, Set Design
As an art director working in the fashion space, I’ve thought about how I could make a positive influence on the issue of textile waste. Starting from home, I deconstructed my old clothes and started to sew quilted pieces together with the fabric. Continuing to perfect my sewing skills, I began to think about other material sources. With my connection to ONS Clothing, I came across an assortment of damaged indigo tshirts that I happily took off their hands. The pockets on the shirts inspired this idea of incorporating pockets - visible and hidden - into the tapestries. For Earth Week at the ONS Flagship store, I sewed a 3’x9’ backdrop installation using the upcycled indigo fabrics and placed plant clippings into the pockets to show its additional function. This led to me working with FabScrap in Brooklyn, NY in sourcing more upcycled fabrics to use as backdrops for photoshoots and displays.
The Coolture art show held in the ONS resident artists space of their Nolita store featured tapestries that I created using a mix of fabric from my personal clothing, ONS dead stock and Fabscrap textiles. I hoped to show what can be done with the resources around us.
— Paper Sculptures, Drawings
As a main discipline, Studio CoolCool explores graphic forms through the interplay of 2D and 3D processes. Especially in the digital realm, the experiences between flat surfaces and spaces morph and blend with each other through technologies like augmented reality and immersive environments. I’m inspired by these shifts in perception and the expectations of depth and dimension. The Flatten Series plays with paper as a medium which can be manipulated to give and remove form and how added treatments can alter the perception of its form.
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— Wood Sculptures, Drawings
As a main discipline, Studio CoolCool explores graphic forms through the interplay of 2D and 3D processes. The Knit Series pulls inspiration from textile design’s visual approach and how it can be applied to a more rigid material like wood off-cuts.
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— Drawings, Collage, Sketching
What began as a way to reduce my art waste, I’ve incorporated collaging into my art and design practice as a method to push my work forward and open up to new, unexpected concepts. I take past works (drawings, paintings, sketches) and mix them into collages with new compositions and combinations of color and texture. Not only for art, I’ve applied this method as well to my design journals in which I mix references I find in the world with sketches from past projects in the hopes of finding new approaches to ideas. In a time of hybridity and codification, it’s important to open up the process and allow for the unexpected to break you out of your singular ways of thinking.
