SWARM

85 x 90 cm

Patchwork, quilting, hand-block print and hand embroidery on cotton and cotton chambray, with foam insert

2026

This artwork is part of Second Appetite, a series of four textile works in which clothing, often called a second skin, becomes a surface being eaten away, as fast fashion's hunger for novelty devours the planet's water, soil and labour.

A blue cardigan with patch pockets, pieced from squares like a pixelated image, sits on a quilted grid of block-printed maroon dots. Yellow outline stitching traces its seams, and dozens of small yellow bugs crowd over its surface. Swarm captures the frenzy of fast fashion, where we devour garments far faster than they can last.

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