ART
THE REMIX
THE REMIX
We made things. Beautiful, wearable, surprising things.
The Remix is a 55-piece collection of one-of-a-kind garments and bags created entirely from upcycled, reclaimed, and deadstock materials. Think towels turned into tote bags, old bedsheets reimagined as jackets, and discarded polo shirts stitched into shorts. We dusted off our sewing machines, raided closets and donation bins, and tapped into the magic of what already exists.
This project is about more than just clothes. It’s a practice in transformation, care, and creative rebellion. We designed style profiles for our collective members, thought deeply about how we want to be seen, and crafted pieces that reflect those wishes, all while reducing waste and rejecting the fast fashion cycle.
Each item holds layers of memory, texture, and intention. From Brooklyn belt factory webbing to vintage ‘80s charms, everything is made with love, storytelling, and a wink. Some pieces are adorned. Some are loud. Most are not for sale (except a few fanny packs), they’re offerings, examples, invitations.
The Remix is a remix of culture, craft, and care. It’s a celebration of process, adornment, and imagining alternatives that feel better, look better, and are better.
The Remix Fanny Packs
SOFT SPACES: HOME GOING
SOFT SPACES: HOME GOING
We debuted a collection of original art pieces called Soft Spaces: Home Going.
This body of work that sits in the in-between, between memory and migration, between here and back home, between feeling like a cultural insider and always being just a little outside of it. As a collective of misfit creatives that share migration, our relationship to home is layered. When we’re away, our accents, our foods, our gestures mark us as Caribbean, but when we return, we’re cousins to our culture, close, but not quite. This project is about holding onto home in the ways we can, through the signs, sounds, and everyday materials that root us. In this next phase, we’re pushing deeper into the textures of belonging. Hand-painted signs and braided hairstyles become wayfinders, markers of direction, of self-determination, of knowing where we’ve been even when the path isn’t clear. Fruits like mango, cocoa, banana, and coconut show up again and again, not just as symbols of sweetness, but as reminders of labor, trade, and the ways our histories are tied to land and movement. We’ll be working with burlap coffee sacks, layering on print, paint, and collage, letting the roughness of the material speak to migration’s frictions, what gets carried, what gets left behind. Our figures, caught in moments of play or rest, challenge the idea that movement always has to be about struggle. Sometimes, migration is joy. Sometimes, it’s just being still and knowing you belong.
If you are interested in purchasing work from this series, email us, sales@mzicar.com for the pricelist and availability.
AR ENHANCEMENT OF ORIGINAL WORKS
We are blending analog and digital processes and experimenting with AR activations of some of the original works.
GALLERY
ABOUT DIAPHANOUS
Diaphanous: In it’s full iteration Diaphanous is a multi room experience. An immersive collection of art telling stories and guiding guests through a whimsical imaginative collection of experiences and material objects. This collection blends art, technology, and history to re-imagine and re-tell stories of the African Diaspora that have been excluded or marginalized due to racial and gender biases. Each offering embodies a theme of something or someone that could only exist now but reframed as if it did exist in a prior time, space, or dimension. we have proken d down this projects into a thematic catagories, Going Places, Ile Omi: House of Water, Soft Spaces and The Bottom End. This group of work is an extension of our Diaphanous series. You can learn more Diaphanous here.
CONNECTED
Earlier this year we did a creative project for a mural, Hardscape and Mini Documentary project Ms. Tootsie’s, and KeVen Parker.
So excited to share this with you. It’s a beautiful story or entrepreneurship, culture and food and hospitality bringing people together.
This was a Percent for the Arts project. Huge thanks to the a Benchmark Team and @helloyowie
It’s called ‘Connected’ located on the corner of Kater and 13th streets.
1301 Bainbridge St, Philadelphia, PA 19147
KEEP GOING
KEEP GOING
‘Keep Going’
Our latest antics @arteloksq
“Keep Going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”
-Harriet Tubman.
This location specific piece is located in an incredible motel project called @arteloksq located in Kennett Square.
201 Birch St, Kennett Square, PA 19348In the 19th century, the borough played an instrumental role in the Underground Railroad and we decided to uplift this story and pay homage to Harriet Tubman…and encourage everyone to keep going!
Huge thanks to @squarerootscollective
CLEARLY FOR WARBY PARKER
CLEARLY
We are so excited to announce our recent work with Warby Parker.
This piece entitled ‘Clearly’ was created for the new Marietta Georgia location.
You can check it out in person at the brand new store location located at 3625 Dallas Hwy #615, Marietta, GA 30064
SHE IS HERE
SHE IS HERE for BED STUY WALLS
We decided to play a little bit on this one. This piece is entitled “She is here: A Declaration for Bed Study” we had a ton of fun painting our third outdoor mural in Brooklyn. This mural features our lines triangles and a few of the characters we’ve been developing through our soft space series.
A declaration for Bed Stuy
We had the honor of creating this piece last weekend for @bedstuywalls it was such a pleasure. Huge thanks to @miki__mu and @artface7 for organizing such an incredible event and pulling together so much talent!
Right across the street from 626 Lexington Ave. Brooklyn, NY 12233
TRANSITIONS
TRANSITIONS
Over the summer we were invited by Sprocket Murals to create a mural in York, Pennsylvania. We did a little bit of research and realized the area is in quite a bit of transition. We wanted to channel this into this new piece and title transitions and with it, we decided to incorporate our signature triangles representing balance along with portions of various faces blending one into the other.
QUANTUM LEAP
QUANTUM LEAP
“Quantum Leap” is a bold and dynamic 10x22ft mural that embraces a future-leaning perspective while paying tribute to the vibrant individuals who energize the heart of Philadelphia. Through a vivid interplay of colors, we celebrate the city’s resilience and authenticity. This artwork weaves a narrative of travel, migration, and constant movement, deeply embedded in the city’s ethos. By juxtaposing the present city skyline with visionary architectural elements, the piece beckons viewers to envision a boundless and progressive urban landscape. “Quantum Leap” encapsulates the essence of Philadelphia’s spirit, portraying the convergence of past, present, and future that fuels its perpetual transformation.
This interior mural was commissioned for 1735 Market Street Philadelphia PA
Thank you @silversteinproperties for the commission.
OTHERWORLD
SOMETHING YOU CAN FEEL
When Otherworld approached us to create an installation that took up a whole room and considered all sensory nodes. We were over the moon.
A lot of the experiential places are very digital and we decided we wanted to take an extremely analog approach to this project. We wanted to be slow, deliberate, and purposeful. We considered the process and the experience of making the piece as well as the experience of the. We wanted something that really encouraged viewers to engage in something tactile. So we set out to do a very ambitious tufted project. We proposed a piece called ‘something you can feel’. It’s comprised of multiple panels of hand-tufted drips, pom, poms, hair door, knockers and plastic orbs with the scraps for my pom poms. It even includes upcycled crocheted fabrics. We’ve been on a big world-building kick and often spend a lot of time imagining various futures this piece and bodies it through its mural, which is black light responsible along with the tufted panels. We wanted to concentrate on slow transitions. The lighting in the room transitions from bright light to black light. The music is considered in this piece and every corner of the space offers a different experience as each corner has a soundtrack that is more dominant depending on where you stand in the room.
It seems as though it’s been increasingly challenging to find grounding as a society as a people, and we decided we wanted to create a piece that encourages that form of grounding. We definitely utilize technology, but we focused on very traditional methods and wanted to encourage a cozy space with a future-leaning ethos our future includes the babies but it also includes the elders and this is depicted in the mural featured on the piece.
Much gratitude to Otherworld both the Columbus @enter.otherworld and Philadelphia @otherworld.philly teams for the opportunity huge thank you to the @fkbstudiofor the assistance and support on the project. And massive gratitude to our adjacent member, Gina Giles of @artfully.gigi Huge thanks to all of our friends and family that came through Drank tea and pom pommed with us throughout the winter. We hope to do it again soon.
GEM OF THE LAKE
GEM OF THE LAKE
Did you know that? Erie, Pennsylvania is known as the gem of the lake. We had the honor of creating this mural in celebration of this legacy in Erie, PA.
Through this project we learned that young children are walking really long distances to get to school due to lack of busing and so the city decided to create a mural initiative to promote, limit the blight and have beauty throughout the city that all people could enjoy.
For this piece, we tapped into the energy of water, and the literal depictions of gems and wanted to reframe the narrative of Gem on the lake to be a celebration of the people being the gems of Erie.
And it’s augmented.
It’s located on the @1020_collective building in Erie Pennsylvania
Random:
- Gems take a long time to paint.
- there are bunnies everywhere in Erie, just bouncing all around. They kept us company the whole time
- Boom lifts are Tetris/math/puzzle equations and operating them should count as credits towards math…just staying
This project was supported by @erieartsculture and done in conjunction with #viewsfestival