Vermin

THE DEFINITION OF VERMIN “PEOPLE PERCEIVED AS DESPICABLE” THIS DEFINITION SUITED MY PROJECT BECAUSE THE KEY WORD IS ‘PERCEIVED’, MEANING THAT HOW A PERSON IS VIEWED MIGHT NOT BE WHO THEY NECESSARILY ARE.

ORIGINALLY INSPIRED BY THE PHILOSOPHY AND MEANING BEHIND FRANZ KAFKA’S “THE METAMORPHOSIS” AS KEY ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL TOUCH UPON FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY, AND THE RADICAL REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO SOCIETIES VALUES AND CONVENTIONS. ANOTHER STRONG INFLUENCE IS THE PUNK RIOT GURRRL MOVEMENT OF THE 1990S, A SUBCULTURAL MOVEMENT THAT COMBINES FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS AND PUNK STYLE AND POLITICS. THEY TACKLED MANY ISSUES SUCH AS SEXUALITY, PATRIARCHY, CLASSISM, ANARCHISM AND FEMALE EMPOWERMENT.

WITH VERMIN AS A COLLECTION I WANT TO EMPOWER THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN MADE TO FEEL LIKE A LESSER PERSON, WHETHER THAT BE BECAUSE OR THEIR AGE, GENDER, RACE, RELIGION, OR JUST BECAUSE OF HOW THEY LOOK OR LIKE TO DRESS, TO BE CONFIDENT IN WHO THEY ARE AND TO NOT LET ANYONE CHANGE THEM.