Scrap Land is a fiber art installation piece sewed and sculpted into my closet using mainly fabric scraps and thread. The intent of this piece is to drive people to question how they view their closet and how they can salvage and recycle old clothing. Humans have become extremely wasteful and have adopted this habit of constantly buying new, cheap clothes, which has allowed fast fashion to flourish. A lot of my artwork focuses on fashion sustainability so I decided to only use materials I already had, instead of buying new ones. Mimicking the Bauhaus School’s strategy of learning through doing, I began this process by emptying my closet out and simply cutting up scraps and positioning them in space. I began to sew pieces together and kept on repeated this threading and hanging process. I also created a “sea” of fabric on the bottom of the closet, below the hanging installation, and placed pieces of plastic to illustrate the problem of micro-plastics seeping into and polluting the ocean through washing fabrics like polyester and cotton. This piece pushed me to focus on positioning and altering old scraps into even smaller scraps and manipulating them to beautifully transform a space.
