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The project was inspired by the phrase “your life flashes before your eyes as you die.” The story was developed with the theme and the phrase as the underlying foundation and takes into account the concepts of life review experience and merciful death, two themes that have become of interest to me during the pandemic. In the future, death is not a price so high to pay versus the emotional and physical cost associated with suffering. Technology has advanced and a machine has been created where one can voluntarily hook up to and watch their memories spool before them as they end their life.
A collection of Ensemble cast designs for Shadowbox Lives comedy and musical theater shows. Designs are either based on mood, color palette, or a time period. Photos by Buzz Crisafulli.
SCAD challenged a select group of alumni to take an important historical figure and bring them into the future through design. My Galileo Galilei piece was not only selected as a finalist it was featured in the SCAD fashion film “Escalate.” (Film link)
A bright yellow, orange, and pink 1960's inspired take on the classic B-52's song "Love Shack." The curtain call song for the Shadowbox Live show "Behind Closed Doors."
The word queer has traditionally meant the weird and the obscure. Something that you don’t understand. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick explains that the term now refers to ‘the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent element of anyone’s gender, or anyone’s sexuality aren’t made to (or can’t be made) to signify monolithically’(Weber, 2014). This Alice in Wonderland is the reclamation of the word queer. Alice’s journey through Wonderland is a journey of self-discovery and relearning; getting rid of internalized transphobia and homophobia. Each character represents either a LGBTQ+ experience or a historic LGBTQ+ event in America. For example, the Caterpillar represents gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia.
Sometimes we can be overstimulated. Overwhelming feelings can hit us in many different ways, in many different situations. Little things like the sound of nails down a chalkboard and kissing your first love. To big things like getting hugged by a parent after a long time away from them and losing someone you love. The panic right before getting hurt. The loneliness of moving to a new place and leaving all your friends behind. This collection showcases the feeling of being overstimulated through silhouette. Some of the garments are constricting, others are oversized making you feel bogged down. The patterns that were designed for this collection are meant to assault your eyes.
