Nest Autumn/Winter 2012

The Nest deals with isolation and hibernation. It's the animal instinct to burrow and hide away, which is simultaneously comfortable and claustrophobic. Our nest is our home and the walls we build around ourselves, which keep us exquisitely safe but also still and imprisoned. We are continuously building up our nests for shelter and security while that same protective structure becomes a cage that we've created around ourselves. Even our bones and skeletons become little cages that we can keep so many treasures inside - trapping and stunting them and protecting them. The fabrics and silhouettes reference the natural skins and warm furs that we shelter ourselves with; the structures we painstakingly build out of bricks and wood; the dichotomy of the leaf and the feather, the branch and the bone, the nest and the cage.