primary deconstruct

The title of this work, primary deconstruct, invokes the action of releasing – once being released from the illusion of any construct, there emerges a deep knowing from within. This has been the materialization of that process. I began by illustrating characters that animate the essence of each primary colour. These colours in many cases have been primary in coding assumptions about existential orchestration into our beings. Furthermore, they code onto the graphics of our materialized brands – another layer distorting disillusion over our vital capacities. To distort and play with these elements of primary colours and the shapes they animate – to reclaim a sense of what is actually primal within my psyche – is an act of cultivating relationship with my subconscious awareness and intuition. It is this direct approach to transformation whereby distorting the tools of oppression and enslavement become means for liberation and creativity that I exercise enigma. Through this relationship, I can then begin to apply elusive discontainment to the garments. Another layer of direct confrontation happens when the garments and the screen-printed illustrated characters blend into what was there before and in this blending, vanquish any trace of the living death within the costume.  Once this design mechanism has been formed, it can be applied freely to any other sewing techniques employed. The handcrafted garments carry this awareness within each stitch, they may be felt and seen for those who can sense this be it wearer and seer. This is Primary Deconstruct. 

The making of this collection began in 2014 in the University District in Seattle and has continued throughout moving every year and a trip down the west coast and back up to Washington. Stitching on the bus up the coast and at the hostile in the flower district in Los Angeles, punching out water bottle sequins on the ferry commute to Seattle, embroidering in the basement of my fathers house where I was not allowed to burn incense, flantering in the pieces in pieces when I rented a room on a homestead in Shelton, and finally finishing up the process of presenting the collection through my home studio on Beacon Hill.