Acid Raincoat: A Future Heirloom
The future heirloom project inspired the Acid Raincoat piece. Dealing with similar themes of waste and inheritence, but this time trying to transform the new contrusction into a wearable heirloom, something that bears even closer resemblence to the objects we often intend to pass down.
Acid Raincoat is a continuation of the Future Heirlooms project, expanding on its core themes of waste and inheritance. While Future Heirlooms reimagined plastic waste as a monumental, communal heirloom, Acid Raincoat shifts scale and intimacy, transforming the idea of waste into a wearable artifact.
Drawing on the tradition of passing down garments as heirlooms, Acid Raincoat explores how a constructed object can carry meaning, memory, and contradiction. By designing the piece as wearable, Acid Raincoat makes the idea of legacy more immediate and personal. It poses a question: what would it mean to inherit a garment made from waste? How might we treat disposable materials differently if we saw them as part of our shared future?
As with Future Heirlooms, this work invites reflection on what we choose to preserve, what we discard, and how future generations will make sense of what we leave behind.
