"In an account that foregrounds practice, the question is always how to create conditions for the tuning of experience to what most generatively runs through it, and how to recognize that these ecologies of practice are not ours to orient so much as ours to participate in as co-composers in the refashioning of modes of existence that make up our body-world constellations." (Manning 2020, 36).

"This is what materials do: they teach you how to move them, and how to be moved by them" (Manning 2020, 73).


I don't use patterns. I drape around my body and pin and sew. You have to let the dress become what it will. I'm inspired by Erin Manning's writing on a Japanese designer in Dress Becomes Body chapter of The minor Gesture, though I began hand sewing in this fashion before I encountered this book. (I'll write more on this later)