Fibers have a story, before the cotton was planted, oil was extracted, sheeps were sheared.
Textiles become a living journal of memories.
In our current phase of late stage capitalism, textiles tell the story of over consumerism, slave labor, and climate collapse. There are enough existing textiles on this planet to dress the next six generations, yet we continue to make and buy more as landfills take in millions of tons of textile “waste” each year.
How do we consciously exist in a civilization that seems to have been created without conscious?