Veiled Abstractions (2020-Ongoing)
Mask made from collected/ discarded matchboxes + matchstick remnants (2021)
Veiled Abstractions (2020-Ongoing) is a multidisciplinary project that follows a ghostly figure exploring an ever modernizing urban space. The series asks what it means to adorn an ephemeral vessel, and looks at how we as citizens are able to reclaim and re-experience the history of our cities, and the role that fashion plays in our ideas of belonging. Throughout the project the figure uses artifacts found throughout the cityscape as tools for their world building. They move through their city as a phantom flaneur, exploring questions around urban spectatorship, class tensions, and the gender divisions of the twenty-first-century African metropolis. The figure grapples with the notions of modern alienation & the postmodern spectatorial gaze. This project attempts to show what it means to subvert cultural, social, spatial and gender imaginaries in the Horn of Africa through the creation of wearable sculptures.
Mask made from collected mobile cards (2020)
Veil made from collected barbershop posters (2022)
Eyewear made from found construction materials. Veil made from collected/found safety pins Mask made from collected cassette tapes + discarded CDs
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