WHERE POWER HURTS

Category: Apparel

This wearable art piece investigates the internal dissonance between what is felt and what is shown – where stability is performed, but discomfort is lived. The garment emerges from the idea that people often carry conflict silently, and in doing so, learn to wear tension like fabric. The final piece distorts the body, not to dramatize it but to externalize emotional imbalance. Forms bulge, slant, and interrupt natural posture – fabric wraps and restricts in a way that denies ease, mimicking how dissonance shows up in the body as restraint, stiffness, or defense. Elements that appear voluminous are not always functional, and where the body is expected to rest, it is instead resisted. In the final photographs, this tension comes through clearly. The silhouette becomes a psychological space – disjointed, asymmetrical, and sometimes claustrophobic. There’s an intentional imbalance in how weight, shape, and exposure are distributed, suggesting a person caught between contradicting roles or feelings. The piece doesn’t scream discomfort – it wears it quietly.

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