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Vessels of Dispersal

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Student Keely Wu
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Year 1

By day, the city calls them weeds. By night, we call them survivors. We are the Order of Molle, stitched together by soil, thread, and quiet rebellion. Our suits are not sewn as one, but assembled from hundreds of individual fabric fragments, sewed and smocked into pockets holding grains of earth, each seam carrying tiny Geranium molle seeds. With every movement, a seed slips free. The city does not hear us. At midnight, we step into its pavements, alleyways, and forgotten corners, moving through the streets like shadows. We redistribute. Beneath street lamps and cracked concrete, our footsteps become catapults. A shoulder brushes a wall. A sleeve catches the wind. A knee bends, and another handful falls. Seeds scatter quietly into the city’s wounds. They call Geranium molle unwanted, but unwanted is only a matter of perspective. We have seen what it does. How it softens broken ground. How it fills emptiness. How it insists on life where none was invited. Every morning, the city wakes unchanged. But beneath its surfaces, something is beginning. Tiny roots enter the cracks. The forgotten is returning. And one day, the streets will bloom.

Seedlings packed in agrotextile pouches on the back of the garment.

Back view of the Garment.

Smocked fabric shoulder piece.

Closed form of the Catapult.

Catapult springs open when the white thread is pulled, dispersing seeds.

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