In November my parents remigrated to Brazil. As a result, I spent much of the past year going through the contents of our home, deciding what could be kept and what would have to go. The belongings organized into three categories; items to keep for myself, items to get rid of and a third more complicated category of things I had no use or space for yet too precious to let go of.
It was while disassembling the contents of what had been my home for many years that I stumbled upon the fragments of my thesis. I have spent a substantial part of my formative years in this home. Even after moving out of my parents’ place, it remained my anchor.
The third category, the remnants of our home, became the starting point for my thesis. The collection functions as a new home for objects, materials and memories left without a clear destination.
Through processes of disassembly, deconstruction, and reassembly, domestic materials become garments, framing the collection as an exploration of continuity and material memory following the dismantling of this home.
My thesis is a tribute to the home my parents have built for me.
