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Clothing Sculpture

Textile Art, Ambiance Dissolving

Ambiance Dissolving, 2025

Rapunzel

Rapunzel, 2025

Hem, Green Chainsaw

Party Dress with Bolt Cutters, 2025

Grey Dress with Green Chainsaw

Grey Dress with Green Chainsaw, 2025

Yellow Dress with Burning House

Yellow Dress with Burning House, 2025

Shadow Work

Shadow Work, 2025

Table made out of layers of used clothing, arranged in a gradient from maroon red, orange, yellow, sky blue, to navy blue. Clothing transformation into a functional soft abstract sculpture with sustainability in mind as core value to push against mindless consumer culture and waste. The table is a column shape. Made by Derick Melander.

Tandem Repeat, 2023

Clothing Sculpture: To Reshuffle the Sun – The hill-shaped lawn in Travers Park covered with second-hand clothing, arranged like a giant color wheel but with a dark center and a light outer edge. 100 feet wide.

To Reshuffle the Sun, 2023

Clothing Sculpture, The Witness (tall stack configuration, square)

The Witness, 2021

Clothing Sculpture: A Cloud Reveals the Moon

A cloud reveals the moon, 2018

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