Social commentary merged with fashion artifacts.
Exploring the tension between individual identity and collective meaning, this work interrogates how PPE became both protection and a visible signal of personal and political identity during a global pandemic.
Honest Perspective
Exposing individual vulnerability by activating a typographic mantra: [an] honest perspective is built [from our shared experiences]. This message highlights the absurdity in linking political identity with personal protection. The typographic form embodies the complexity and messiness of the human experience. Characters occupy space, place, shape, scale, and orientation. Attributes define the relationship between adjacent figures—touching, overlapping, melding, and impacting—no one existing alone. Each character represents the singular and the collective with every expression.
Sabotage
Exposing our collective vulnerability. If one chooses not to wear a mask, they put others at risk. In this context, sabotage is not about obstructing the collective for individual advantage. Instead, it represents obstructing those that refuse their shared obligation. The typographic form is gestural and immediate—human behavior. When things are going well, people focus on their present happiness, rarely thinking about their impact on others. When things are not going well, people are forced to analyze their actions—to change their situation, they must understand their effect on others.
