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My artistic process started when I was young, watching my grandmother embroider. She filled her house with fiber remnants from past women in my family. My great aunt would fill pillows with old nylons and change her curtains to sync with the seasons. My great grandmother meticulously folded her plastic bags into tiny squares for storage. The need to collect and save every scrap, every moment, for the creation of something new is a trait that runs thick in my family. There was something beautiful about the way my mother wrapped nylons around her plants for stability and draped sheets over her bougainvillea, providing shelter from the cold desert night.

Like my matriarchs, I enjoy collecting disparate objects and ideas and bringing them together to make a connection -- two pieces of unlikely fabric meet, shoes match the trim on the city bus. I enjoy how these connections can change and re-organize themselves in light of their context, leaving room for the unknown.

I seek to live the questions while embracing the urgency to make. I seek to integrate these weighty, uncertain moments in my art. Life is where the art exists -- by re-contextualizing ideas and combining materials I am creating a new story from the familiar.

I construct wearable pieces using paint, fabric, and salvaged ephemera. My garments explore our rituals, habits, dreams, and family history, as well as the intimacies of the body. I am fascinated by our need for texture and tactile experience, and the ways in which we create personal relationships with comfort. These symbolic and spiritual connections with the garment are a concept that is central to my work. My pieces are meant to be worn, or imply a need for the body. They need the support of another structure in order to enhance their meaning. Each embellished moment in each piece leans on the next to create the overall meaning of the work. My work simultaneously implies and challenges function. I enjoy the humor involved in this paradox, the vulnerability it creates in the viewer, and the moment in which we can't name a specific purpose or reason for its existence. This is the space I seek to be in -- the space of questions.

Malimademe Couture is a small one-woman shop owned by Mali Mrozinski.

We are a growing endeavor, and are currently at work updating our shop. Please check back soon for an expanded selection of items for sale. Please contact Mali with any questions or to arrange for custom work.

Here is some of my past work to check out:

Mali Mrozinski
831-227-0173
mali@malimrozinski.com