"Fish tailors her clothing to the determined or intuited conceptual needs of a project or collaboration. Whether Fish is designing clothes to reflect the narrative of Peaches’ “I Feel Cream” 2009 Tour, or the extemporaneous stage choreography of Cody Critcheloe in a SSION concert, the garb is intended to reflect the movement and feeling of the wearer. Fish’s style borrows and extrapolates from feminist design a la Lucy Orta, Rei Kawakubo’s “like some boys” a.k.a. Comme des Garçons designs and guerrilla store antics, and Yoko Ono’s Fluxus games; punk and DIY culture recalling David Bowie’s evolutions of persona and Kim Gordon’s oscillations between music, fashion and art; occult symbolism and ritual garb evocative of the Tarot and the Knights Templar; Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain surrealist players; and The Labyrinth’s Muppeted cast. As part of the collective Carnal Torpor, Fish has constructed sensorial art provocations and experiences based on manifestoes and cultural diagrams; installations with taste, smell, and touch; and costumes and accoutrement for conjuring ritualistic experience. In Fish’s revelry, designing a space for feeling is a multi-dimensional operation; a spiritual service; the work of making one’s life habitable and aesthetic, yet perceptive and challenging.
Fish’s Native America and Warrior Wear collections offer modular outfits that are adaptable and androgynous. Earlier this year, Fish created an intimate two-person robe for an exhibition in Brooklyn, NY called speak and spell of which her CSF exhibition piece is a continuation. Participants share a silk veil that drapes between their foreheads as they sit facing each other. When showing this piece, Fish occupies one half of the robe, assuming the role of designer and Tarot Reader, and an audience member/querent joins her in the other half. Together they wear the garment as equals – an entry into a sacred space within a gallery setting. Works such as this flout the model of assembly line, ready-to-wear attire, emphasizing instead a personal environment conducive to focus and feeling. Fish designs experiential situations with clothing and costume intended to inspire a change in perspective. Using fashion as a form of self-expression and psychological reorientation, Fish hopes to offer her audience the conditions for channeling one’s energy and a chance for empowerment."
-taken from the essay by Lacey Wozny, Assistant Director, Grand Arts, July 2010.
Fish’s Native America and Warrior Wear collections offer modular outfits that are adaptable and androgynous. Earlier this year, Fish created an intimate two-person robe for an exhibition in Brooklyn, NY called speak and spell of which her CSF exhibition piece is a continuation. Participants share a silk veil that drapes between their foreheads as they sit facing each other. When showing this piece, Fish occupies one half of the robe, assuming the role of designer and Tarot Reader, and an audience member/querent joins her in the other half. Together they wear the garment as equals – an entry into a sacred space within a gallery setting. Works such as this flout the model of assembly line, ready-to-wear attire, emphasizing instead a personal environment conducive to focus and feeling. Fish designs experiential situations with clothing and costume intended to inspire a change in perspective. Using fashion as a form of self-expression and psychological reorientation, Fish hopes to offer her audience the conditions for channeling one’s energy and a chance for empowerment."
-taken from the essay by Lacey Wozny, Assistant Director, Grand Arts, July 2010.
