Made upon invitation by the international jeans fashion brand G-STAR. Streams is both an ode to the vitality of water as well as adressing the water consumption and pollution by major textile industries. The making of a single pair of jeans requires about 3,781 liters of water, with the bulk of this water use coming from cotton production, dyeing and finishing processes. As much as G-Star strives for sustainable production and limited water consumption, focussing on high quality clothing, they're still part of a global fashion industry. Two hundred worn G-Star trousers were manually cut and twisted into ropes, after which they were knot together into a spatial tapestry/sculpture. Various shades of blue are picked out to create an almost painterly waterfall of textile. In rope making the current state of a material is being put under tension to bring forth a strong structure which can be used to connect, hold on too, ... In this way the rope symbolizes btoh the strength and longevity of the jeans material as well as the social component of clothing, connecting the different actors in the worldwide production process.

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