My hometown – Parker, Colorado – sports a visual drabness that is particularly emblematic of American suburbia. Dominated by swaths of developer-made structures, the environment can feel lifeless and confining.
Drawing from Mugler’s disruption of the fashion industry through his couture shows, my project creates “necessary irritants” that disrupt a bland status quo. These insertions aim not only to provide radical opposition to their context, but also as infectants – changing the face of a once “un-drab” suburbia.