THE MAGICAL TRIP

Animated through subtle motion and assembled as a short film, the work shifts beyond the language of a traditional lookbook. It sits somewhere between fashion story, music video, and miniature theatre set - where characters feel both familiar and imagined.

From within this world emerges Mudlark - dreamlike and painterly, with a porcelain face, a blunt pale bob, pearlescent floral textiles, oversized sleeves, river-forager boots, pockets filled with Star-Glass fragments, and a translucent Star-Glass satchel with celestial charms.

Mudlark: a solitary collector searching tidal landscapes for Star-Glass - smooth fragments of extinct celestial beings. Some say the pieces still carry faint memories of distant constellations.

Star-Glass: smooth, river-worn relics shaped by years beneath the tide. Translucent and luminous, each fragment holds tiny trapped air bubbles, soft cosmic colour, and ancient celestial sediment suspended within. Some grow warm to the touch, chime faintly, reveal hidden patterns, cast strange shadows, or replay fleeting memories.

Tidewalker: Mudlark leaves her lighthouse aboard the Tidewalker to discover what the shore has revealed. Inside are shelves of labelled Star-Glass, tide maps, pressed plants, buoy sketches, moon charts, and curious notes. Here, she catalogues relics, repairs what can be saved, and keeps records of a world that has mostly vanished. For Mudlark, the tide is a clock, and her life moves to the rhythm of the water.

Tide Buoys: soft, hooded floating markers anchored beneath the water. Mudlark uses them as wayfinders, tide markers, warning systems, and keepers of memory. Some are known to hum before storms, turn toward Star-Glass, gather in strange places, or appear outside her lighthouse overnight - and no one knows who placed them there. She believes them to be ancient navigation devices - silent guardians marking invisible roads beneath the sea. They can communicate with light: a steady glow, a slow pulse, a quiet flicker. Mudlark has learned to read them as sailors once read the stars.