Denim Designs
Throughout my creative journey, I have explored many outlets of design and art. One of those outlets was fashion design. My senior year of high school, I taught myself to sew and began making my own jeans. I experimented with different designs through painting and bleaching jeans to creating inverted pant leg designs using different pairs of jeans.
The jeans featured on the right were my favorite and most popular ones. They became iconic among my friends; I sold 4 pairs of them to different people in my class. Through that experience, I learned how to measure specific parts of the body to design form fitting pants as well as hand sewing the more intricate parts of the jeans such as the pockets and belt loops.
Film Photography
As I have grown in my photography, I have experimented with different camera and photo types. My favorite media of photography, and the one I am most proud of, Is my film. Since I got my Minolta X-700 my junior year of high school, I have not left it out of an adventure. When ever I am exploring new places and experiencing new things, I make sure to bring my film camera to capture my favorite moments.
My favorite part about film photography is the anticipation of waiting for your results. Also, the amount of film in a roll is limited, so film photography captures moments at their purest. In this spread I featured moments from some of my favorite adventures, my vacation to San Francisco with my sister, my backpacking trip in the Wind River Range in Wyoming, and my a hike I did with my dog back home!
"The Jackson Five"
In the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, I fixated on making collages of myself in Photoshop. I spent time interacting with my scene and I captured these interactions, placing them all into one scene, giving the illusion that there are multiple versions of me. I was inspired by a Tik Tok made by Vogue Russia where one model wore multiple outfits, but each version of her was in the scene at the same time interacting with each of the others.
Shortly after making these, I showed a friend. She said I should make a picture of five of me in roller skates as if I was the Jackson Five! Thus, I named these photoshop studies “The Jackson Five” in reference to the band as well as an ode to my friend.
