Retainer Dress
2023
Silkscreen and silver foil on denim, polyfil
Further exploration of the bridge between digital and physical spaces. Musing about the tumblr tween 2014 era, then digitally manipulating retainers, as if crushing the metal in my hands. Emphasizing the whiplash of body expectations of the internet age as a person entering puberty- sexy yet chaste, innocent yet edgy.