Everyday Divine: Fashion, Ritual, and Identity Transformation: A Wellbeing Modality for Post-Pandemic Society

As the world slowly reopens and hopes for the end of the COVID-19 era, I have been conducting a project that sees me alone in the studio, investigating the function and meaning of my creative process. I ask: Why does the making process feel and function like a ritual, more than a routine? What evidence of the metamorphic energy of making lies within each finished creation? Through a review of other scholars’ work, from fields including ritual study, psychology, art, and pedagogy, I began to understand the process of creation, and how it can promote positive transformation. The art of creative research propels the maker into a liminal stew, where only the forces for and against the act of making are evident. The choices of materials and applications gather increasingly on the studio table, and the question of the meaning behind the process grows curiously deeper...