Cultural Threads is an artist-directed exploration of identity, pattern, and cultural translation through contemporary design and image-making. The project originated from research-based investigations within my Drawing Studio course, where participants examined cultural artifacts from their home regions—extracting shapes, lines, and visual rhythms connected to personal and collective histories.

Through a process of artistic direction, selection, and recomposition, these elements were transformed into a cohesive body of work using black-and-white Abayas as a shared visual ground. Patterns were abstracted, layered, and extended beyond the garments into large-scale graphic environments and photographic installations. Presented as a site-specific exhibition, Cultural Threads reframes fashion and pattern as a spatial language—one that brings individual narratives into dialogue within a unified, contemporary visual system.