Joan Jonas Collaboration

For Rachel Comey’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection, we worked on a collaboration with artist Joan Jonas. Unfortunately, these pieces did not make it into the final collection, but I’ve included here some of the designs I created.

This print, unofficially referred to as “Animal Party,” features several different sketches of animals from Joan Jonas’s drawings, as seen below. The animals involved are a dog, a horse, a lamb, a rabbit, and a bear. They are in various states of interaction; some are seen kissing, some fighting, some fucking. This playfulness is very much in the spirit of Jonas’s work. There are two colorways, one with the original colors on a cream background, and one with that same cream color on black.

I also created some mockups for designs based on one of Jonas’s circle prints, superimposing this graffiti-inspired circle onto various pieces of clothing and parts of the body.