If I Could Be the Sea
(2022)
If I Could Be the Sea is a manifestation of the desire to set out to sea, to (re)turn to water and become boundless. It is a journey where, in the end, the pursuit of the horizon leads back into itself.
The initial inspiration for the collection came a quote from Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Women Who Run With the Wolves, “When spirit becomes heavy, it turns to water... Therefore the way of the soul... leads to water.”
From this, I imagined pants that were waterlogged, pulling the wearer from shore and into the waves, engulfed by the ocean foam. The textures were inspired by undulating trails of sand, ebb and flow of tides, and the cyclical passage of time.
This collection also drew inspiration from the rising and setting of the sun and the way it descends into itself while breaching the horizon, its rippling image reflecting on the ever-shifting mirror of the sea.
The initial inspiration for the collection came a quote from Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Women Who Run With the Wolves, “When spirit becomes heavy, it turns to water... Therefore the way of the soul... leads to water.”
From this, I imagined pants that were waterlogged, pulling the wearer from shore and into the waves, engulfed by the ocean foam. The textures were inspired by undulating trails of sand, ebb and flow of tides, and the cyclical passage of time.
This collection also drew inspiration from the rising and setting of the sun and the way it descends into itself while breaching the horizon, its rippling image reflecting on the ever-shifting mirror of the sea.
Naturally dyed cotton junk rig sail
(2022)
(2022)
Installed at Woods-Gerry Gallery (2022)
