A mind trapped in yesterday

“A mind trapped in yesterday,” explores emotional

fallout from abrupt life change. Ezenwa E. Olumba’s

studies on cognitive immobility provide language for

the pull of reconstructed memories, a looping archive

of glorified experiences that comforts while distorting

reality.

The result is a warped past, stolen moments in the

present, and shifted expectations of the future. Structured outerwear, manipulated familiar forms, and

material that contains memory, translate psychological paralysis into tactile form and embody nostalgia’s

weight, safety, and quiet suffocation within garments

that hold memory close.

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In Collaboration with Swarovski