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Behind Fast Fashion
Medium: Colored pencil
Year: 2020
Description: Malpractice in the sweatshop industry and abuse of laborers in retail factories, particularly overseas, is a primary global concern for me. Having significant experience in FIT classes on fast fashion and personal mentors and instructors cultivating a passion for sustainable and ethical fashion, I expressed this concern through “Behind Fast Fashion.” This piece is addressing the abuse and exploitation that many factory workers suffer through in countries that do not have sufficient worker-protection laws established. I used black paper to make the image appear darker and have a more intense mood, while the stark black, white, and bronzed gray contrast is simple but more profound. The white looks ghostly in contrast to the black background, perhaps alluding to the weakness and lack of a voice in these workers. The perspective of the piece is intended to be drawn from a sewing machine facing the worker’s hands. I chose to draw a bandaged hand to symbolize not only the physical dangers of working in a sweatshop but also the emotional and psychological damage that must be endured. I wrote “Made in Vietnam” down the skin of the laborer to symbolize the long-term impacts these conditions afflicting these workers, particularly in these countries.
Behind Fast Fashion
Medium: Colored pencil
Year: 2020
Description: Malpractice in the sweatshop industry and abuse of laborers in retail factories, particularly overseas, is a primary global concern for me. Having significant experience in FIT classes on fast fashion and personal mentors and instructors cultivating a passion for sustainable and ethical fashion, I expressed this concern through “Behind Fast Fashion.” This piece is addressing the abuse and exploitation that many factory workers suffer through in countries that do not have sufficient worker-protection laws established. I used black paper to make the image appear darker and have a more intense mood, while the stark black, white, and bronzed gray contrast is simple but more profound. The white looks ghostly in contrast to the black background, perhaps alluding to the weakness and lack of a voice in these workers. The perspective of the piece is intended to be drawn from a sewing machine facing the worker’s hands. I chose to draw a bandaged hand to symbolize not only the physical dangers of working in a sweatshop but also the emotional and psychological damage that must be endured. I wrote “Made in Vietnam” down the skin of the laborer to symbolize the long-term impacts these conditions afflicting these workers, particularly in these countries.