Fast Fashion is intended to bring to the forefront the environmental and human rights issues that our capitalistic obsession with cheaply made "fashionable" clothes has done to our society. The projections are loops of children in India working in clothing mills, a fiery pit, litter, a dog taking a shit, and televisions and furniture on the side of the road. There is one scene projected on the jeans of the Appalachian Mountains to juxtapose the ugly to the beauty, and I deliberately put that on the ripped jeans to further the contradiction of the imperfect and the perfect. I put the piece facing the corner of the room, forcing the viewers to crowd around and really interrogate the images, almost as if they're trapped. The purpose was for the viewer to be confronted with their hand in the fast fashion epidemic. I hope this piece allows for the viewer to think and further interrogate their shopping choices, and how they dispose of their clothes.
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