The Data Collection

The Data Collection

The Data Collection, custom garments designed and made for Fashion Week 2021, brings digital imagery and consumption of media back into an analog form with living people wearing paintings in real life. The garments occupy a space between seemingly surface-level color interaction and digestion of what is happening worldwide and virtually. In opposition to artificial environments and social media, my viewer and I are participating in the deeper reality of a shared experience. By layering materials with obscured patterns, I aim to convey a sense of immediacy, repetition, memory, and history. The painting is a physical record of what happened to me and the work.