“Let’s Assume One Day We’ll Meet Again” is an exploration into the intersections of sustainability, design, and emotion. This project contemplates the grief I feel—and many of us feel—as a result of climate change, grappling with the state of the world through four surface designs for textiles to be used in living spaces. Each design is based on the theme of a different season, showcasing variations of skill within surface design to expand my portfolio while also investigating the ways in which I see the world. These four designs aesthetically accentuate the meaning and weight of the grief I feel surrounding climate change, while simultaneously appreciating the beauty of our environment. 

Utilizing a design language of flowing lines, vivid colors, and narratives that speak to the emotion of the human experience and its interaction with the natural world. This project illustrates the idea of Eco-Surrealism, communicating the strange beauty experienced in our current time. Themes draw from the wild of the Pacific Northwest and blend visual styles vacillating between true representation of ecosystems and more abstract motifs to encapsulate the feeling of life on earth in our current era. Using these two approaches in combination, I intend to create a surrealist landscape of work representative of our changing climate. 

Sustainability has played a key role in the design and production process. From start to finish, sustainability has been central to choices made surrounding visuals within each print as well as manufacturers and processes chosen to create this work. 

Through an installation created to feel like a living room, I hope to have created a safe space to hold the pondering, feeling, and being with all of the grief, happiness and whatever emotions you might have about the world we live in.