BOUND
Director: Erin Ikeuchi
Photographer: Carson Stachura
Models: Carmen Raillard & Natalie Cheng
Stylist: Mia Cucufate
Producers: Grey Bakwin & Sungyoon Lim
Makeup: Rita Nguyen
Clothing: Zhexuan Hu
Assistant: Emily Wang
Thinking with shibari, a Japanese style of decorative bondage, this project explores Asian queerness at the helms of the Western gaze. We play with ribbons (and rope) as a current trend – malleable, fluid, and “coquette-ish” – as well as a medium for themes of embodying desire, the pleasure of constraint, and coming to being terms with being bound by forces beyond your own accord. Being ‘tied’ up means many things, but this project dreams to familiarize this practice of pleasure as a means of reclamation.
Imagine: happening upon a reel of satin ribbon, maybe cutting a few pieces off to make bows in your hair, a necklace, up the trunk of your boots. Slowly, the come to consume you. And there’s a certain comfort and bliss in letting it happen.
Imagine: happening upon a reel of satin ribbon, maybe cutting a few pieces off to make bows in your hair, a necklace, up the trunk of your boots. Slowly, the come to consume you. And there’s a certain comfort and bliss in letting it happen.
