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- Erica Flannery
Erica
Flannery
Like a Rhizome Cowboy
My graduate work is born out of love of digital culture.
As our world becomes increasingly more digital, the option to not partake becomes more and more unattainable. My collection offers garments to help the wearer evade technological observation.
Heavily inspired by Zach Blas’ “Facial Weaponisation Suite” and Hito Steyerl’s “How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .mov File”, my design work is concerned with obscuring the body of the wearer, creating amorphous shapes and silhouettes, preventing detection by digital technologies. Playing on dichotomies of hard and soft, structure and fall, the perceptible and imperceivable, my work uses these contrasting principles to confuse the observer. I work primarily on the stand with abstract shapes creating dimensional, sinuous lines. My garments have technological input bursting from the seams. My print work was driven by A.I. technology, and I have used post-consumer waste cables in textiles and closures.