Design Collection

I love you as much as all the beads in the universe: a garment-based inquiry into re-stitching alternative worlds of love

Justine Woods’ Master of Design thesis exhibition engages with a praxis of decolonial love through garment construction and beadwork as a practice-based method of inquiry. The body of work centres decolonial love as methodology with the expressed purpose to physically and conceptually re-stitch alternative worlds that are grounded in ethical practices and based on respect, empathy, reciprocity, consent and love.

decolonial love Indigenous diaspora alternative worlds liberation re-stitching garment construction beadwork

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a love that creates land and shapes water
a love that creates land and shapes water

Fashion

a love that creates land and shapes water

Bib pants sewn in double faced wool and vegetable tanned deer hide, edge stitched with size 11 seed beads.

our bodies are stitched with 193 years of diasporic love
our bodies are stitched with 193 years of diasporic love

Fashion

our bodies are stitched with 193 years of diasporic love

Duck vest sewn in double faced wool and deer hide, edge stitched with size 11 seed beads

walking through our world(s) with a fierce and tender love
walking through our world(s) with a fierce and tender love

Fashion

walking through our world(s) with a fierce and tender love

Workwear trousers sewn in double faced wool and deer hide, edge stitched with size 11 seed beads.

we carry our homeland(s) close to our heart
we carry our homeland(s) close to our heart

Fashion

we carry our homeland(s) close to our heart

Full arm length gauntlets sewn in deer hide and edge stitched with size 11 seed beads.

Work by

Justine Woods

Garment Artist and Designer

“My research and design practice centres decolonial love as methodology with the expressed purpose to physically and conceptually re-stitch alternative worlds that are grounded in ethical practices...” [More]