The world already has enough exceptional created products so we can enjoy our life. However, our desire for owning better and newer products never ends. Even for solving our problems and overcoming inconvenience in our daily lives, we continuously create new products in the pursuit of a more comfortable lifestyle, and increase more waste anyway.
“Play of patch and touch of re-fabric” with upcycling suggests that makers can be more creative to reuse materials and step back from consuming new materials as much as possible. Upcycling only requires your own imagination, creativity and elbow grease, and then you remove items from the global garbage stream. We provide jobs for women who work in the informal cottage labor market of sewing with upcycling scraps.
Using the re-fabric process will not only support the local sewing ladies who want to earn extra income to support their families so they usually accept orders requiring simple sewing. However, the re-fabric process could give them the opportunity to use their creativity and engage with an audience as creators. We make our products and art pieces with the re-fabric and sell to them.
When the art pieces and products are made tactile, the gate of experiencing art is open wider for the blind, who are often excluded from experiencing art in museums and art galleries. Experiencing this kind of art through the texture of all different kinds of materials, seams and embroidery with touch rather than just seeing it. This event can help audiences and customers become familiar with a solution to the environmental problem through touching the actual art.They would be exposed to the problems of waste and be involved in positive actions together wherever the exhibition and events are held. Physically experiencing something is very often much stronger to understanding it than just seeing pictures.