2020
Mask Madness
upcycled materials animation
During the 2020 Global Pandemic, I worked with fashion design students, Ashley Phillips and Ciera Blair, on a sustainable college fashion project. Excessive usage in single-use masks, like most manufactured non-biodegradable products, creates excessive waste. My team became inspired to reuse the fabric from wasted masks to create concepts for wearable garments.
After washing and sanitizing the masks we personally collected, my team developed prototypes with the stitched masks made into a larger piece of fabric. One partner had to mail their progress to another partner since this project transpired during the pandemic. A modeling figurine was used as a convenient, precautionary meassure. I was responsible for rendering the stop-motion animation from the photos taken at each stage of the process.
Despite the model size difference between a figurine and humans, the concept of conjoining an agglomeration of non-biodegradable materials to build a “new” product is a possible future I believe we must pursue.
After washing and sanitizing the masks we personally collected, my team developed prototypes with the stitched masks made into a larger piece of fabric. One partner had to mail their progress to another partner since this project transpired during the pandemic. A modeling figurine was used as a convenient, precautionary meassure. I was responsible for rendering the stop-motion animation from the photos taken at each stage of the process.
Despite the model size difference between a figurine and humans, the concept of conjoining an agglomeration of non-biodegradable materials to build a “new” product is a possible future I believe we must pursue.
littered single-use masks | 2020
inspiration + research
process work
