Touched Ancestral Land, a fiber map of the North Atlantic Ocean, North and Baltic Seas, traces the immigration route my grandfather made from Lithuania to the port of Philadelphia in 1907.
Environmental Fragmentation, I chose to use synthetic clothing due to its profuse use in the fast-fashion industry. Reclaimed cloths were disassembled and cut into small abstracted forms to mirror the breakdown of synthetic fibers into non-biodegradable nanofibers.
In addition, 200 wristbands fashioned from fabric remnant scraps were produced. In exchange for a band, the museum viewer prints their name and city in an accompanying journal, recording their dispersal. The project embodies the desire to physically connect with a lost relatives.
Environmental Fragmentation, I chose to use synthetic clothing due to its profuse use in the fast-fashion industry. Reclaimed cloths were disassembled and cut into small abstracted forms to mirror the breakdown of synthetic fibers into non-biodegradable nanofibers.
In addition, 200 wristbands fashioned from fabric remnant scraps were produced. In exchange for a band, the museum viewer prints their name and city in an accompanying journal, recording their dispersal. The project embodies the desire to physically connect with a lost relatives.
Polar Oceans created from synthetic clothing and carpet padding, references our familiarity with the shapes of countries, but not the contour of the world’s oceans which are often considered shapeless voids between continents. The two polar oceans, Arctic and Southern, are plotted onto a field of polyester carpet padding and filled with gradated color fields of synthetic clothing, a nod to the cartographer’s practice of assigning colors to landforms.