CAPTURED MOMENTS

I started collecting things that appeared during the making process.

 

Test-stitched fabric.
Stitches left behind at the moment I changed the thread.
Shapes left behind after cutting.
The selvedges that would normally be cut away.

 

Things that were necessary to make the finished garment,
but were never meant to become part of it.

When I looked at a piece of test-stitched fabric, with white, red, black and other colours of thread randomly layered across it,

Love it! I want to stitch this onto clothes!”

I started having this feeling more and more.

 

It also happens with painting.

I love looking at a messy palette after a painting is finished.

And gradually, I started wanting to make these parts the main subject of a work.

It became almost like trying to capture the moment when I changed the thread. And I kept collecting these moments.

I remember taking time at fashion school to find the right thread colour to match the fabric when I was making a suit. Yeah, a proper one...

But I don't make clothes like that anymore.

I don't make a red garment and automatically use red thread.

Sometimes I suddenly change the colour of the thread.

It's all blabla-instinct.

For a fashion brand that doesn't draw design sketches, these intuitive moments are very important.

When you're making a garment, you usually start with something you want to make.

But during the process, something you never planned to make can suddenly appear, and you think,

“Ohhh, I love this!”
(feels good for my brain and soul)

That moment became the starting point for these collected pieces.

These are things that appeared because, at that exact time and in that exact place, I was actually making clothes.

In a time when a perfect artwork can be generated instantly with AI, I feel that the things I make still have a process behind them.

These collected pieces symbolize the process and the instinct behind my handmade work.

I make my own clothes, but I don't post many videos or photos of myself working.

Maybe I'm just stubborn when it comes to my art.

Videos and images can be generated with AI, or copied nowadays.

I wanted to find my own way to show that I really make these clothes myself.

Instead of showing you the process, I wanted to show you the actual things that were born from it.

Maybe that's my stubborn way of doing things.

 

These are the strongest proof that I really made the clothes myself.

They are evidence of a moment that actually happened during the making process.

A series was born from collecting these moments and traces, and leaving them behind as small artworks.

 

In 2026, from June to August, I collected these pieces one by one from things that appeared while making clothes.

Things that existed within the time it took for the clothes to come into being.

A record of those moments in the making.

For the next POPUP, I’m bringing these pieces as the main focus.

They will be displayed alongside the clothes I made.

The clothes,
and the evidence of how they came to exist.

I'm excited to see them together.

CAPTURED MOMENTS.