THE Black Dress exploits the conflation of the translucent moiré surfaces of black silk organza, made from the continuous filament of silk worms and ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) synthetic rubber cord. These two disparate materials produce conflicting ontologies—inducing the uncanny. Silk has a tensile strength greater than steel, the extensibility of rubber, the water absorbency equal to that of wool, and is biodegradable. EPDM satisfies an infrastructural impulse. As an assemblage, organza and rubber suggest a soft body conflation of the natural and the highly synthetic.

Collaborator | Eric Kahn

The Black Dress is a donation for A+D Museum Wearable Gala, 2012