Frankenstein

Adam is a handmade chandelier constructed from industrial steel and discarded leather.

The name references the Creature’s description of himself as Victor Frankenstein’s “Adam” — the first creation of his maker.

Traditionally, the chandelier represents wealth, power, divinity, and illumination. Here, that familiar symbol is stripped down and transformed into a dark, imposing mass. The piece reflects the relationship between creator and creation: once something has been brought into existence, it develops an identity beyond the person who made it.

The chandelier was constructed through a combination of rigid steelwork and hand-worked leather, with each section individually shaped and assembled. Its scars, irregularities, and raw surfaces are left visible rather than concealed.

Eve is a series of three handmade leather vases, created in Natural, Spiegel, and Black horse culatta.

The vase was chosen as a vessel for new life. Its purpose is not simply to contain flowers, but to become part of their life cycle.

Each vase begins as a blank surface. As flowers and objects enter and leave the vessel, they leave behind stains, marks, and changes in colour. Over time, the leather develops its own patina, gradually recording everything it has experienced.

Like the Creature, Eve cannot simply escape its existence. It continues forward, carrying the marks of what came before, constantly absorbing new experiences and changing through them.

Each vase is fully handsewn and constructed from individual pieces of leather. The natural irregularities of the horse culatta remain visible, ensuring that no two pieces develop in exactly the same way.

The Guised × Tokonoma Object Dyed Tee explores the idea of carrying a fragment of the Creature with you.

Each T shirt is individually dyed, repaired, and finished by hand using discarded leather from Adam, the chandelier. Pieces of the chandelier, the Creature’s physical remains, are repurposed and attached to the garments, allowing a fragment of the original work to continue existing in another form.

The shirts are intentionally imperfect. The dyeing process creates irregular variations across every garment, while the leather repairs introduce marks, scars, and textures carried over from Adam. No two pieces are the same.

In this way, the Creature is no longer confined to a single object. Parts of it are broken apart, carried away, and given new lives, allowing its presence to continue beyond the exhibition itself.

Across Adam and Eve, leather becomes more than a material.

It is something that changes with time, carries scars, and records its surroundings. The process of making is deliberately visible — stitches, marks, irregularities, and imperfections become part of the final object.

Frankenstein became an opportunity to look at creation not as a finished moment, but as an ongoing process.

To create something is to give it an existence of its own. From that point forward, it continues to change, gather experience, and become something beyond what it was originally intended to be.