Lughnasa

Lughnasa is August 1st when we feel summer in its height and we take time to pause and celebrate the abundance and beauty of the harvest. On this day we gathered on Detroit’s east side riverfront park called Mariner’s Park. The color story for this collection was inspired by the compline prayer hours as the night sky darkens into midnight blues.

The ‘Lughnasa Collection’ is 1 part of a 7 part collection of fiber art clothing pieces exploring themes of circular fashion and a circular sense of time using the ancient ‘Celtic Wheel Of The Year’ calendar to ground on the land we inhabit in Detroit.  The larger project is called ‘All Creatures Here Below’ and has 55 outfits, all made from landfill rescue items. This project aims to challenge preconceived notions of what is ‘in fashion’ and instead present a futuristic, dream-like vision of tribes of people who make their clothing using the materials they have at hand, in a way that considers people, the planet, and the power of self-expression.