AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
textiles, fabric, fashion, clothing
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
DESIGNED BY
Alice Potts
WEBSITE
http://www.alicepotts.com/sweat-crystals
Perspire: Sweat Crystallization
Growing garment crystals from sweat
Sweat creates and captures an emotion beyond ordinary experience. Showing the beauty of how our bodies respond to our current environment, Yet also captures a single moment from different points in individuals lives.
We all sweat every day but never stop to think about the importance of this bodily response or what it could be.
Sweat covers us in similar ways to clothing like a second skin. Over the last 3 years, In collaboration with the Bioengineering team at Imperial College London, I have developed a process to extract our natural sodium, lactic acids and oestrogen etc to create these fully unique crystals.
Each sample can be grown back into the material used, meaning that they can be fully incorporated with each garment and fibre. Thereby avoiding the use of any toxic manmade adhesives.
In industry, the major use of sweat crystals to date has been in the fields of art, campaigns, jewellery, embellishment and conductivity to produce fibre optic technology.