2025 - Ocellus Products

I am a multi-disciplinary artist who fashions a world through costume, product, and illustration. The art that I design is created to inspire play and imagination in people of all ages. I aim to challenge the belief that fashion design can only take a single form. Fashion to me is a lifestyle, a way of being— in this world, or any other of my creation. My life’s mission is to leave behind a space in which people have the courage to dream. To dream up a world for themselves more beautiful than the one they were given.

I explore the act of play through a custom chess set. It is composed of modular wooden blocks, a space in which the player can customize their own battleground. The chess pieces have taken on a new form of character that exist within my world, allowing the player to play as a new identity.

To build a space that encourages imagination, I have created an illustrated children’s book. It is a tale about an underestimated bunny who breaks free from the cage that he was once captured in. No matter how small or cute a bunny may seem, never underestimate his capacity for power and fury.

Identity is created through the physical manifestation of an original character within my universe. Linh is a lonesome matron of an orphanage. At the orphanage, she collects baby orphans to nurture and protect. Linh’s motives for her peculiar behaviors remain a mystery to this day. I have embodied this character through traditional costume design. I view each of my costume creations as a beautiful creature, whom I intend to capture the magnificence of by needle and thread.

Creativity is tackled through the challenge of my own beliefs about fashion. Through puppetry, stop-motion, and film— I have learned that the medium in which fashion can be explored is boundless and limitless.

All elements of my creation harmonize to fashion my world, known as, Ocellus.