EARLY HOURS
2025, Master of Design Exhibition
Thesis Title: Story-a-Garment: Skins Storied For a Body in Pain.
Abstract:
My Insides, turned skin. My carcass, your protector.
Your shield. Your armour.
Traces of me linger within the folds of your hide, seeping through the punctured wounds of your flesh.
My story, engraved into the seams, unravelling at the hems.
I’ve become…more than.
Story-a-Garment: Skins Storied For a Body in Pain takes the position of being hunted and
alienated through highlighted life experiences. Seeking a way out, I use personal antagonistic
experiences to story a garment in my exploration into a hybrid fashion and spatial design practice.
Alternating between the eye of the prey and predator, both sides of the story take place through
a spectrum of methods: story, escape, obsess, and morph. Narratives shift, unravel, and mutate
within the series of works. Here, the story comes to life through worldbuilding. Multiple
lifeforms—threaded across evolving structures, garments, and adorned bodies.
This work is to be situated in an escape environment. To be gawked at, stared upon. Questioned.