otect ourselves from?
When can liberation follow the protection of self?

My self-protection lies in my friendships.
In which we support each other and hold together, build each other up, trust each other and are angry together. We understand each other.
We understand each other because we all feel the same pain.
We live in suffocating patriarchal structures that we feel every day, at all times. They are part of us.
The pain we feel brings us together.
It binds us together, binds strangers together, binds loose acquaintances.
We can access the feeling of freedom when we are among ourselves.
Then what was once pain can transform into something beautiful.

Our communities arise from shared suffering, pain, fear?

We can draw conclusions about the former function of the outfits through their design, but these fade or can no longer be grasped.
Protection no longer needs to be in the focus. The objects were allowed to transform themselves into desirable items of clothing in which only an echo of their function is still legible.

Graphic Design Credit: Lisa Schumann