Whilst continuing along this journey of combining my art with fashion elements, I began exploring one key area that is commonly overlooked within the fashion industry: The Environment. 

 

It has been proven that due to its extensive discomposure time, clothing has become the second biggest polluter on our planet, with landfills being overrun by unwanted, fast fashion clothing that we are disposing of for the sake of creating new trends.  As we are moving into a more eco-friendly society, we should be seeking more innovative and responsible ways of disposing of clothing, such as reselling them through third party apps and websites, donating them to charity and clothing banks, or perhaps reusing them in a certain way.

 

This body of work consists of creating sculptural forms entirely out of recyclable materials and objects such as polystyrene, cardboard tubes and plastic bottles, and that also incorporate pieces of clothing from my household of which we no longer wear. These sculptures have been made to appear as if they had been discovered within landfill, with  the surfaces of the polystyrene been cut, torn and ripped apart to represent the idea of discomposure, and with the clothing draped and stretched across the surfaces acting as hazard tape, creating a barrier and warning to the viewer to not contribute anymore waste clothing to our landfill and risk causing anymore damage to our environment.