Although younger generations are becoming more educated and passionate about climate change, each year the fast fashion industry grows exponentially. We are consuming more, contributing more plastic and non-degradable waste to our planet, killing her faster. On one hand, we don’t think of objects as living parts of our world, although they truly are. They are born, they live out a purpose, and they die. Their lifetime and the period of time between living out their purpose and death, is so vastly different than ours that we see the end of their living purpose as their death, but really they will waste away slowly and at such a longer pace than we will even exist. This project explores materials that are meant to degrade over time and works towards designing objects meant for quick consumption and degradation.

I am exploring how quickly bio-materials fade and disintegrate, the natural forms they take, and different recipes in order to create different material qualities for functional and formal purposes i.e. soft, hard, malleable, transparent, opaque, etc. I will construct these materials into a series of objects and document their shortened life cycles and their ability to fade into the soil, giving back to the earth that they were born from.