An central part of my life-work is studying how we adorn our bodies, and collectively produce pluriversal cultures of dress. Verbing “fashion” can take many forms, and this collection of projects specifically covers my hands-on creative practice, making (and unmaking) clothes. The garments I work on are in a somatic dialogue between the wearer and the textile, about gender, queerness, embodiment, materiality, and play.
BRICKS is not a brand, it is a studio. Bricks wields fashion practice as a trans homing ritual, linking the material world with the internal world. Garments are somatic containers, skins, and vessels, rich with the magic of animism, which empower us to shape shift while feeling our edges. Garments are also cultural scripts, semiotic conversations with ourselves and each other. In the weeds of gender transition, moving deeper into non-binary wilderness, Bricks hacks traditionally masculinized garments transforming them into an arena for argument, augmentation, and arrival. With tethers to academic studies in sustainability and design, Bricks welds their many-pronged practice together with science fiction, bog theory, pyrofeminism, xenofeminism, and gender alchemy. As an anarchitect of the world we call Gren, they maintain that having the right outfit for utopia is a flamboyant act of prefiguration.