This bag was designed during my time at Awamaki, a Peruvian NGO working with indigenous artisans to promote sustainable tourism and artisan access to the global market.
The woven design is derived from traditional Peruvian textiles and is woven in wool by cooperatives in the Sacred Valley.
The body of the bag was developed alongside Awamaki’s in-house seamster, Señor Tomàs. It is constructed with leather and hardware sourced in Peru.
More of the collection can be seen here.
Photo by Elaine McKellips
The topo print was designed for the Holiday 2019 collection for JOYN Bags. It is based on the topography of JOYN’s homebase - Rajpur, India. The print was hand-carved and block-printed by the artisans at JOYN.
The other blocks I designed for the collection are pictured below.
Cropped scarf and woven samples for a collaboration with fashion design student Lizette Fernandez. Scarf made of wool yarn sourced from a family mill. Double cloth woven structure stuffed with scraps from the developed of Fernandez’s collection. Both samples made of yarn unwound from thrifted sweaters.
This film is the culmination of a study of New Media Art, a movement in which artists explore their relationship with media. In Green Screen How-To, a pair of hands weave a small green screen that displays the same video. In the last seconds of Green Screen How-To, one green screen is overlaid onto the other, blurring the line between the two. Although throughout the video the green screen effect is evident, it seems to disappear in the end, emphasizing reality and the physicality of the screen itself.
See more about this project on the website for the mock New Media Art festival Lord of the New Rat
This exploration was part of a series on local systems in Savannah, GA. Through these samples, I explored data-based weaving by deriving a draw-up from the song “Georgia On My Mind.” I considered how culture and ideology might be incorporated into the structure of cloth.
For this piece I embroidered secondhand jeans with the faces of influential women in my life. Featured are mothers, friends, and coaches. This project is inspired by the work of Ghada Amer.
