QWIL is a ritual design practice used in this project to channel transformation and memory through the creation of wearable relics. Each garment is screenprinted with layered symbols, affirmations, personal marks/notes and archival scans. The project uses material processes of replication, distortion and overprinting as a means to preserve memory and challenge meaning through imperfect acts of copying.
The visual style is formed by fragmented glyphs, sigils, esoteric and spiritual symbols, as well as drawings, sourced from my personal archive. These elements are composed on the clothing in a manner aimed to resist categorisation, while working with the history of the garment. The outcome is not just clothing, but walking canvases of temporal marks.
This approach allows opportunities to reframe the copy as a generative ritual act, grounded with spiritually charged references and conceptual depth. The brief allows for design outcomes that are tactile sites of transformation, blurring the lines between graphic design and art.