SA04: Plants vs Plastics
Our later collection delves into the intricate relationship between materials in our modern era, where humankind has shifted from relying on plants and fungi to sustain life on Earth to foraging plastic waste scattered throughout our natural environment. Our Pop-up recycling labs are built in nature and found ‘waste’ plastic is immediately recycled into design objects found on the expedition.
The hand-stitched garments are skillfully dyed by artisans with mango, ketapang, mahogany, indigo leaves, and sappan wood bark to reduce the use of toxic synthetic alternatives. Moreover, in any instances where natural dyes were not employed, waste textiles were reworked to create new garments with renewed purpose, and we are now using waste plastic as hardware - showing a strong juxtaposition of plants and plastic displayed on garments.