Nyein Chan Serenity Paing
RMIT Bachelor of Fashion (Design)
Delving into the deep time of my body through metta bhavana (the cultivation of loving-kindness), I follow an autoethnographic link to areas where my ancestors practised and engaged with textiles and dress.
The rainforest ecosystems of Myanmar are rapidly becoming lost to resource exploitation. The role of colour in the lives of the communities who work with it begins an investigation into notions of ‘women’s work’ as cultural custodianship and care for the planet.
A series of transformable garments, which are naturally dyed with organic materials commonly used in Myanmar and India, are designed to be worn as an inquiry into our relationality to place across multiple bodies with multiple histories.
