MFA grad collection 2020

My collection is about programming chance. I am creating chance procedures in knitwear that allow for variations to emerge. The very nature of knitwear is so precise and technical, and so I am interested in exploring new ways to rethink knitwear that allows for a more blurred outcome that can not be

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anticipated. I am taking a process based approach whereby the technique will dictate the aesthetic. By not focussing on the final outcome but rather the process, fabrics are fluid, unscripted.
Within my practice I think it is important to relinquish control over processes to allow space for uncalculated variations to emerge. By creating processes that can not be controlled, materials are given the freedom to evolve and change. The final outcome is always different. Exact replication is impossible. I am working with knitwear as the fundamental foundation for all garments, not just knitwear. This means that the unpredictable nature of the knitwear dictates the silhouette. I see the potential for knitwear not only to exist in the traditional sense, but to actually inform the shape and silhouette of all types of woven fabrications.

I am approaching knitwear as the inner structure of the garment, allowing woven garments that are typically very precisely formulated, to be freed of these pre-designed silhouettes.

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