The Hand Me Down Project
The Hand Me Down Project is a sustainability initiative using the material conditions of the southern black community to shape culture through art. This project amplifies the ways Southern Black American communities carry on traditions such as quilts, stories, clothes, and customs as a way of bridging intergenerational experience, preserving resources, and practicing collective healing. This project serves as a reflection of the value that black women offer to the community through pure ingenuity and innovation.
Collection: Seed of a Brighter Day
Seeds of a Brighter Day
Seeds of Brighter Days is a collection of collages that reflect the traditions and heritage of Black Womxn (X represents gender non-confirming and transgender individuals ) as a product of the Hand Me Down Project. Made with second-hand materials & nick-nacks each piece is infused with intention. The frames give reverence to the protection and value that Black womxn and girls have created for themselves. Each picture has a frame and a story about who we are, who we have been, and the infinite possibilities of who we could be.
These collages are made in the spirit of quilts. Quilts during enslavement were made by Black womxn cartographers. They hung out studying pathways and signifying times to escape. Each picture challenges the monolithic narratives of Black womxn that society imposes on and internalized by ourselves.
Seeds of Brighter Days offers a wide variety of pathways for liberatory existence beyond false realities and separation. Woven together like a quilt each piece dissects myths of our identities while honoring the roles we have each played.
Thrift or handed down fashion is ritualistic practices to southern black communities. As sibling pass down clothing and mothers pass down jewelry this cultivate community while being conscious of economic and environmental resources. Here are some examples of thrift clothing on curvy black bodies.
Fashion For the Plush
