Artist Statement:
My work navigates the relationship between fashion, selfhood, and the fragmented nature of identity. Though I consider myself calculated and forward-thinking, creating with intention demands a confrontation of the past- both personal and historical. I draw from fashion’s embedded contradictions: the need for union versus isolation, the erotic versus the restrained, the curated self versus the body’s resistance to perfection.
Fashion is an internalized language of longing, self-perception, and desire- an incomplete medium of identity that is always shifting and layered. It constructs a version of the self that is both deeply personal and inherently performative. My work translates personal narrative into ready to wear.
WORK FEATURED IN:
Take This Before We Go 2025
SMORGASBOARD 2025
Art of Unity Showcase 2024
Dinner and No Show VOL.7 2024
2G00DHOTD@MN.V4 2023
Prism Exhibition 2022
avaelpowers@gmail.com for artwork/commissions