A Life of Objects.
A collaboration with Newtype Studios (Nigeria) supported by the British Council and Ellen MacArthur Foundation as part of their Circular Design Lab programme 2019. The project investigates aspects of the garment industry by reimagining an item of clothing as a medium for the recording, transmitting and encoding experiences and knowledge.
A series of textiles were created predominately from Nigerian and Senegalese cotton with linen carrying a language built on hypermarks. The hypermarks are made up of a series of ideograms each one symbolising a certain type of event, emotion or relationship. They work on their own and can be used in conjunction with one another in order to create new meanings.
It includes a short narrative following the lives of three generations in a family through the perspective of a particular garment that is handed down.
“An abstract journey through the symbols etched into the fabric of a garment over three generations of a family. A gift is given, graduation, a first job, love, childbirth, death, mourning, healing, growth and gifting again."
A Life of Objects is a Hyperculture project. For more information visit the Hyperculture website.