CARE WEEK 2023

Care in 2023 has taken on a new collective form that goes outside of ourselves. Our first Care project birthed in 2020 as a response to conversations with clients behind the chair, the second was a response to conversations with fellow hairdressers through our community library visits. This year we feel so cared for as we’ve settled into our new home in Williamsburg, by our clients, neighbors, and hairdresser community that we wanted to flow this energy back to you. 

Visuals of ebbs and flows, expanding then shrinking, nourishing and extending out again. This care season feels like nourishment before a cycle of rebirth. Like we have collectively held tight and want to hold a little tighter while feeding, nurturing, and holding onto each other. A hammock has come to mind as we’ve been in the beginning stages of planning this, or a net maybe. A knit web of support. If one of us is weak, we might not be able to do much more than to sit alongside them for a little while, stepping in or just showing up and if we can, take a little weight off so they can rest. The web, the net is always there.

We’ve been thinking of collective mixtures. There needs to be variety in growth, healthy growth. We mix, we compost, all of it, and together it all feeds, nourishes the collective.