I AM Koi

Koi is quietly beautiful. 

There is a softness in her face, a sweetness that feels almost vulnerable, yet she carries herself with a quiet strength. 

The koi has long been associated with perseverance, transformation, and the ability to move through difficulty with determination. 

But for me, Koi is less about any one symbol and more about movement—the way water carries us, changes direction, and continues on.

I wanted that sense of movement to live within her clothing. 

The translucent blue of her overskirt drifts around her like water, revealing what lies beneath while never quite settling into one shape. 

She seems to stand in stillness while everything around her moves. 

Perhaps that is where her strength lives: 

not in resisting the current, 

but in knowing how to move with it.

PROCESS of Skirt:

PROCESS of skirt: Grasses in paper, cotton, silk, vintage kimono

appliqued onto hand-dyed vintage cotton'

Hand-painted mulberry paper as fish.

Topstitched.