I contain juice.
My graduation collection from Fashion design at the Gerrit Rietveld academie. 31/08/2023
Eating is an activity that is unavoidable for your entire existence. You do it with everyone, on birthdays, family days, work parties, drinks, with your housemates, outdoors and alone. Have you ever eaten in front of a mirror? Then you can see how you eat, how often you can look in your mouth, how you take the bites and how big the bites are and if you look closely, you can also hear the sounds you make. Have you ever kept a clock to see how long it takes you, or how long it can take you? And which colors are on your plate.
Are there more colors on your plate than you are wearing today?
What happens to the color of food? How does food get its color? Not to dive completely into that now, but to talk about the color of food, I ask you as a reader if you have ever paid attention to which food you eat the most? For example, I eat a lot of bread. In the morning, two slices from the toaster, preferably with chocolate spread and a large cup of black coffee. My breakfast mainly consists of the colour brown, I also like white bread, but I now know that it contains less fiber, which can hinder bowel movements. Which also happens to be brown.
When I choose fruit, I like to eat strawberries, they are so deliciously sweet. ÉÉN ZOET.
Food. it comes back to you all day long. A subject that I was not very good at talking about at first, but which I am getting better at. A subject that kept repeating itself in my life and which I chose to put an end to in order to become free from it.
My collection is a movement through food, first you hold it in front of you, then against you. You slowly put it on and disappear into it. Then you only feel your feet and you slowly take it off again. Please note: it is a movement that you will repeat throughout the day, throughout your life.
I chose fruit because that wasn't the trigger for me. It made me comfortable and I could play with it all the time. What shape, color, realistic or imagined, big or small, thick or thin, hard or soft. It had no effect on me. It has healed me and shown me that food is not nearly as bad as I had always thought.
And now repeat further.
Don’t you want to learn, do things, make, create, meet people, laugh and so on? Life is so much more than just what comes into your mind. Life is everything. Everything is life.