We Came Empty Handed, We Leave Empty Handed
Categories
Fashion Design
Client
KABK
Project
We Came Empty Handed, We Leave Empty Handed
Services
Fashion Art & Design Direction Motion
Year
2024
This project expands on the idea of honesty into a reflection on impermanence, inspired by the Buddhist phrase 공수래 공수거 (we come empty handed, we leave empty handed).
Working across textile, moving image, spoken word, and performance, the project explores the body as a temporary form. It began with photographing my own body, which was then translated into drawings and textile prints using natural dye techniques.
This project expands on the idea of honesty into a reflection on impermanence, inspired by the Buddhist phrase 공수래 공수거 (we come empty handed, we leave empty handed).
Working across textile, moving image, spoken word, and performance, the project explores the body as a temporary form. It began with photographing my own body, which was then translated into drawings and textile prints using natural dye techniques.
Transparent silk garments allow the body to appear and disappear, emphasizing instability and transition. The color red is used to explore associations with the body, emotion, and sensuality, while leaving space for individual interpretation.
Collaboration plays an important role. Each participant chose their own level of exposure, creating a process based on trust and negotiation rather than control.
Transparent silk garments allow the body to appear and disappear, emphasizing instability and transition. The color red is used to explore associations with the body, emotion, and sensuality, while leaving space for individual interpretation.
Collaboration plays an important role. Each participant chose their own level of exposure, creating a process based on trust and negotiation rather than control.
Through movement and interaction, the body shifts between visibility and absence, strength and vulnerability. The work focuses on existing “in between”—between holding and letting go, presence and disappearance.
Through movement and interaction, the body shifts between visibility and absence, strength and vulnerability. The work focuses on existing “in between”—between holding and letting go, presence and disappearance.
