29/05/2026
Call for submissions. Deadline June 15th
I’m creating a powerful frock for our Debris Couture Fashion Show on June 27 — a wearable art piece stitched from the language so many of us have survived.
Debris Couture asks artists and designers to transform what otherwise would go into our wastesteam-discarded, into something meaningful and visible again. As an artist, I think about how emotional harm works the same way: painful words, manipulative messages, and toxic exchanges often get buried in our phones like invisible trash we carry around every day. We archive them, hide them, revisit them, and somehow continue carrying their weight.
This piece, created in collaboration with the brilliant sustainability seamstress, , is about reclaiming that emotional debris and transforming it into art.
I’m inviting community participation through anonymous submissions of screenshots of text messages:
– the love bombing
– the manipulation
– the gaslighting
– the red flags you ignored
– the words that made you doubt yourself
– feel small
– feel “crazy”
– or silence your inner knowing.
Words leave marks. Even after the messages are deleted, their weight can linger in our nervous systems, memories, and bodies. Many of us keep screenshots as receipts, reminders, evidence, protection, or fragments of wounds we’re still healing from.
For this piece, I will transform those words into something visible. Something reclaimed from the waste stream of our lives. Something no longer hidden in our phones, but witnessed collectively and remade into beauty, power, and truth.
If this resonates with you and you’d like to contribute, you can send screenshots anonymously. Please remove names and identifying details if needed.
This piece is for anyone who has learned how sharp words can be — and how powerful survival, reclamation, and collective healing can become when we refuse to carry the weight of toxicity alone.
Text your screenshots to 8609928665.
Art, a natural elixir.
