how do i let go make?
2024-2025

i aim to find a space where my work has its own autonomy, where i can free myself from the rules, structures, and predetermined outcomes i build. With a strong love and understanding of colour, line and form, i created a collection that pays homage to grid, pattern, and colour.

the work is centered around meditative textile making that allows me to find freedom in repetition, departing from controlled perfection. i worked with unconventional materials and techniques, allowing them to guide my process and convey autonomy.

my collection that satisfies what perfection cannot.








research  +  inspiration




CREDITS

creative director/designer/maker: amanda nian
design assist: tay freeman
making assist: regine decossard, tay freeman, ian nicastro, antara manurkar
photographer: olivia harris
videographer/editor: kayla bernard
shoot assist: regine decossard, ian nicastro
sound production: tay freeman


body and cloth
2024
















a study on materiality,
a meditation on textile and the body,

exploring the physical, aesthetic, and psychological relationship of knit + woven fabric structures in relation to the body






















research + design development



i am soft, i am vulnerable
2023




i wanted to reconsitiute what protection meant for myself, finding hardness and fortification in vulnuerability, letting the façade fall away, showing truth and bearing all.

i created three looks centered around undergarments, my material choices, textiles explorations, silhouettes and details all contribute to expressing strength in softness.


research + development








co·a·les·cence
2023



the joining or merging of elements to form one mass or whole.

textiles aren’t transient or purely aesthetic, there is spiritual, practical, sentimental, and craft value in textile. the culmination of these values is the art of quilting, a material technique that uses fabric (often leftover) to create a textile items/art pieces.

this series of quilts are made from personal and communal scrap fabric (friends, peers, and the wider community). this body of work explores colour and blends together my love for painting into my textile practice to make items of high value from unwanted material.