adornment second skin
hand stitched Japanese paper teabags
Cartel Al Serkal Dubai UAE 2016
Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi UAE 2016
Curator May Barber
As one deconstructs the constructs of an inherited culture in clothing, one can dismantle form and decentralize patterns of thought. The labour intensive method of hand stitching thousands of tea bags become an ontological process that starts a chain of somatic metaphors which can be seen as an extension of primal pre- linguistic concepts. The absence of tea reflects the obvious absence of the wearer who remains spiritually in the creation of shared memories. The objects are not a decoration of an ideal but in their deconstruction, assert a of unified identity creating honest, relevant, cultural metaphors…simple yet valid.