The hair industry is exactly what it claims to be:  an industry, a business. Its goal is essentially to sell, make money. Hair, like a lot of other products in the world is naturally made and grown by humans- literally.  African Americans are the main consumers in the hair industry. Coincidentally, African Americans have the most diverse and manipulative hair type out of all ethnic groups.

With this piece, I stuffed two pieces of fabric with different type of hair: synthetic, braided, and human hair. I sewed the two stuffed pieces shut; the separate pieces now resemble “bundles,” unprocessed, “virgin” hair ready to be used as extensions and placed on the head.

In terms of line itself, I was inspired by African Americans’ hair being able to be a line that takes on the shape of other shapes (coils, corkscrews, O’s, Z’s, etc) despite it naturally being a line (when pulled). I wanted to show how African Americans and the hair industry are intertwined tightly, knotted and sewn together, much like our durability and strength in all we've accomplished.