Everyone has been taught to perceive themselves as complete.
Idols and followers, creditors and debtors, judges and offenders all remain trapped in the illusion of individuality and personal freedom. Some operate as cogs in the machinery of capital, while others, like ants, assemble entire industries from scattered particles of value.

Industry is now an object of devotion.
Its priests determine how you look, what you consume, what you drive, and who you sleep beside. Industry decides for you, disciplines you, rewards you, and punishes you. It tells you: stay obedient, stay modest, love it, remain loyal, do not resist, do not question — because industry is uberallen.

We approach the archive as a system stripped of its original function.
Deliberate ageing marks the passage of time before the garment is ever put into use. Contemporary technologies are employed to distort familiar forms and reconfigure the expected silhouette.