My name is Rachel Calafell

Having the opportunity to work with Tatum Robotics while at MassArt is an experience of a lifetime that I am very thankful for. We had the opportunity to learn about the needs of those apart of the blind/deaf community. Being able to take my design skills out of aesthetics and into a new perspective of innovation heightened by appreciation for design and ignited a newfound interest into other kinds of fashion design and accessibility design.

These are two projects I did involving knitwear. I did these two in 2022 and am particularly proud of the face/vase illusion dress executed through appliqué

I constructed this bag as a passion project and I grew to become passionate in producing this design made from upcycled and used jeans

I am inspired  mourning. I believe grieving is a privilege. I am honored to experience this sadness because it is a reflection of all the love I have for not only my grandfather who I lost in 2020, my grandmother who I lost in August of 2023.Water is a reflection of depression because it behaves as my depression does, sometimes it’s numbing, sometimes it’s devastating and aggressive, and sometimes it is calm, but the effects of loss are like a droplet in a sea, the effect never stops.