What is Slow Fashion?

Slow fashion movement takes an ethical and sustainable approach to producing clothes. The slow fashion movement is a direct response to the harmful impact of fast fashion on the environment and garment workers. It advocates for making fashion choices that are kinder to people and planet. Mending and learning how to alter and fix our own clothes is also important, as we collectively move away from toxic materials and dyes and to longer term quality and care in our textiles.

What is Degrowth?

Degrowth is an academic and social movement critical of capitalism and the concept of growth in gross domestic product (GPD) as a measure of human and economic development. Degrowth theory's main argument is that an infinite expansion of the economy is fundamentally contradictory to the finiteness of material resources on Earth. It argues that economic growth measured by GDP should be abandoned as a policy objective and instead highlights the importance of extensive public services, care work, self-organization, commons, relational goods, community, and work sharing. Check out this YouTube video to learn more.

Tshirt Word Banners

These textiles were saved from the goodwill bins, the place where all the unsold goods that get donated to goodwill end up before going to the landfill and are sold by the pound. This place is where I source most of my art supplies, I like to work with things the thrift stores are going to *throw away* because they got all these donations for free and if people don’t buy them at the bins they are going to the ground. The letters are cut out from Tshirts and I use the rest of the tshirt scraps left over to make tassels for earrings and for the bottle cap necklaces. The small final scraps I use to stuff floor pillows. My goal is to use as much of the material as possible and keep things out of the landfill.

Upcycled Tshirt Word Collage Shirts

I take used clothing and start by fixing any holes or rips. Sometimes I cut the bottom of shirts to make a crop and then add the extra fabric to make sleeve ruffles. I add letters cut out from Tshirts to make these upcycled shirts and I buy my thread from estate sales and thrift stores. Even my tags are printed on tshirt fabric scraps!

San Marcos Studio Tour

April 4 - 12, 2025 • San Marcos, Texas

I popped up in my mobile van shop at the kickoff party @ mothership, @ the Eye of The Dog, and @ Kissing Alley for both weekends of the 3rd annual San Marcos Studio Tour put on by Mothership Studios. I also spoke on an artist panel put on by the city of San Marcos representing a new voice of the San Marcos art scene. All photos in this set by Diego Medel

Satellite Ranch

March 6-15, 2025 • Austin, Texas

I set an interactive pop-up shop and gallery of my upcycled textile work at Satellite Art Fair for a 7 day performance installation. People could come and see me working on things live in my sewing studio and get their clothes mended, see how we cut apart used clothing and then had live screen printing with Donnie Pepper as people explored the room. In an effort to upcycle what we already have and mend things that just need a patch, I had dozens of fabric memes hanging on the wall, garment racks full of clothing that I had mended or modified or sewn T-shirt word phrases on, as well as tables of framed art, screen printed patches, and random art supplies + clothes that people could make an offer on. 

This anti-capitalist store was an experiment in using discarded textiles that would otherwise be thrown away and instead, turning them into functional wearable art and wall art that uses very little chemicals or new materials, and creates objects with a higher value ~ because the real touch of an artist will always go harder than any fast fashion item you could ever buy ;)