Over the years, I’ve grown to become a self-conscious woman. I’ve learned to love and criticize the expectations that society and the world have imposed on me. I found myself trapped in a complicated dialogue: belonging yet feeling different at the same time. This inner monologue brought up dilemmas and conflicts in my close surrounding – home, family, city, world…
In this project, I’ve worked with knitting as a traditional technique that brings the object closer to the body. My collection tells the story I aim to present: colourful, radical, joyful, funny and hard. All these contradicting feelings and characteristics are joined to make a collection, and that reflects my everyday feelings. In this project, the knitted piece was born from threads that became knots, and the inter-twirling within it metaphorically expresses the accumulated feelings that build my existential experience.
Clothes function as a cover that forms a second layer of skin, the other nature that each of us carries inside. My aim is to present the many faces and identities that lay inside of us, and so is my collection. My collection speaks the language of an infinite game of textures that eventually forms a wardrobe.