Ripple: A Wearable Environment : Exploring Subspace Through an Experimental, Large Scale Textile Installation

Ripple: A Wearable Environment is an experimental large-scale textile installation that explores subspace. Within the kink community, subspace has been explained as a meditative, dream-like state that feels like floating in water which is experienced when engaging in BDSM scenes. However, since most submissives experience subspace in a multitude of ways, the liminal temporality of subspace has remained a vague and generalized phenomenon. Experimental practice-based research techniques are utilized to dive deeper into subspace by exploring the flow of subspace and fetish items as talismanic sacred objects through an embodied lens. 

Ripple pushes against the misconceptions of the queer, kink experience through redefining not only fetish fashion, but also what sexy is and can be. Throughout the project the use of unconventional colour palettes, loose knit and free form crochet creates an "anti-aesthetic" to the well-known styles found in fetish fashion. The intention is not to make queer kink and fetish fashion more palatable to the masses, but rather to create an embodied wearable that speaks more genuinely to the emotional and internal experience of submissive kinksters.