/ by definition / Friedrich Nietzsche’s Übermensch is an, evolved human who transcends conventional morality, ______________As self-creator, the übermensch defines their own values, affirms life completely (amor fati) and weild spiritual strength as the “poet of their own life” /

From the beginning, my self - discovery — has been the marrow of my work. To task myself with every part of my creative process was a resolution to my need for control. It evolved into more roles to fulfil, more spaces to occupy, more arms to grow.

Until 2020 , I had a refusal towards myself, in turn, my work. Nothing was kept, causing no proof of my works before this period. Only when I forced myself into the dresses I was able to face myself through them. My ability to stand by my work, and in it dissolved vulnerability, and It is a place I have remained.

I wore myself everywhere — the post office, to the grocery store, into the mundane and the significant alike. There was no removal, no context that did not require them.

The insistence on making everything myself cultivated skills my hands would not otherwise have learnt. The garments were impulsive, dictated by mood and by how the fabric wished to move. I never sketched or drafted patterns outside of my head.

Moments before creation always felt like something that had to be expelled. I would make and wear, make and wear, until there were hundreds. Over time pieces that had once felt like me no longer did, as I changed, they became unfamiliar. Wearing garments I had made only weeks before sometimes felt like inhabiting a regressed version of myself.

So I wore them until they aligned, some over one hundred times, some only twice. This is what let to my practice of detachment from former selves — from the dresses that once carried them.