takahitoiguchi

‘Using the various sizes and colours of the fibres,
I like to convey a perspective from the microscopic to the cosmic.’

I use discarded yarn scraps and fabric test pieces to make clothes.
I used to work in a fabrics testing laboratory where we measured the durability of fabrics and garments.
In daily tests, the fabrics are deliberately subjected to various loads or forced to be destroyed.
Lint and test debris come in different colours and shapes in each test and are not created by human intention.
The mixture of different kinds of lint is very beautiful, it is like a creation of nature.
This is what drives me to collect lint that used to be clothes and try to reconstruct them into clothes again.