ENTER THE LAB

 The Label Lab 


I’ve spent enough of my life being reduced to diagnoses, symptoms, medications, charts, and whatever somebody could fit into a box on a form. Some of those labels helped. Some changed. Some never came close to explaining the whole person attached to them.

That’s where The Label Lab came from.

I wanted to take all that clinical language — case files, barcodes, specimen labels, intake forms, warning stamps, diagnostic codes — and turn it back around.

This collection isn’t anti-diagnosis. I know diagnoses can matter. Mine have.

But a diagnosis can explain part of me without getting to become all of me.

SUBJECT CANNOT BE SUMMARIZED.
CODE THE SYMPTOMS. NOT THE PERSON.

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Chaos Theøry came out of the way I’ve spent most of my life trying to live with my own head. I was diagnosed young, medicated, hospitalized, labeled, and somehow expected to make sense of all of it.

I never really connected with the soft, polished version of mental health people like to package up. Mine has always been darker, messier, funnier at completely inappropriate times, and a hell of a lot more complicated.

So I started putting that shit into clothes.

Not because I have anything figured out. Not because I’m trying to inspire anybody. I just wanted to make something that actually feels real — and maybe makes somebody else feel a little less invisible.

STILL HERE • MY MIND WON’T SHUT UP • SPACING OUT AGAIN • SURVIVAL COUNTS • CHAOS THEØRY • I’LL JUST SLEEP • TOO MUCH IN MY HEAD • DARK HUMOR REQUIRED •

The Chaos Vault

Some things aren’t supposed to stay forever.

The Vault is where I put the limited drops, retired pieces, weird experiments, and the stuff I may or may not decide to drag back out later.

If something in here speaks to your particular brand of chaos, don’t assume it’ll still be sitting here when you come back.

Enter The Vault

MENTAL HEALTH, UNFILTERED

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