Frozen Forces

Pseudo Fashion Design; at MIT, 2021
Exhibited at MIT Museum

This project engages with themes of wear, aging, and memory. It proposes an alternative model of intelligent skin, developed through hybridizing two common materials into a textile that accentuates, rather than hides, the marks of use. The resulting fabric exaggerates wrinkling and deformation, foregrounding the passage of time and interaction as aesthetic values. Instead of privileging pristine newness, this piece celebrates worn history by “freezing” the forces exerted on it - each crease a trace of movement, each fold a sculptural record. The material remains almost infinitely reconfigurable which could be reset by heat, functioning as a tactile archive of embodied memory.

Special thanks to instructor Skylar Tibbits