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“Earth Crux” is a mod-futuristic business-casual climate apocalypse that takes society back severals decades. In a society that has suffered from excess, what does the future look like when the climate unravels? Consumer excess turns into over-saturation + waste. When resources are hoarded, what becomes precious? What becomes normalized? And who will be the king of all this nothing?
I have suffered from plastybolsaphobia - the fear of plastic bags, since before I could even talk. Plastic is something I think about a lot, and even obsess over. In the 1950s, a consumer revolution raged, allowing for plastics to become vital components of millions of goods. It continued to boom in the following decades with the introduction of silicon gels and acrylics in the 1960s.
With this series, I wanted to focus on 1950’s and 60’s ideas of futurism and sci-fi, along with what we know now about climate change. Between this pandemic, post-truth politics, and a fight for human rights, climate change is a tsunami wave forming in the background.
I focused on using throw-away items, single-use plastics, recycled metals and vintage masks to make new, imaginative wearable pieces. I chose to accentuate organic matter being trapped by plastics, as well as plastics mimicking organic matter.
A central theme was the exaggeration and accentuation of certain facial features and face coverings. There's a tension present in using mass production + cheap plastic to convey elegance and high fashion. In a capitalist society, even a post-apocalyptic capitalist society, what superficiality rises to the surface? How will we distract ourselves as the world falls apart around us?