Featured Artwork Title: “Grl” Parsons Thesis Capstone Collection
Mediums: Digital, fine art, fashion design, photography.
“The ultimately powerful essence of being a woman.
We have rainbow electric magic running through all of our veins. We
carry the world in our wombs and we are born with a blood stain on our perfect white dress.”
Photographed by: Jacqui Hazel
Model: Skye Wilson
Assistance and lighting: Delaney Crawford
Introducing our Color Palette of the Month artist, saylor quin!
Meet our December Color Palette Artist, Saylor Quin. Born and raised in Arizona, Saylor is a multidisciplinary artist that uses digital art, fine art, fashion design, photography, and dance to represent her thoughts, findings, and personal journey. She combines this exploration with an awareness of the consciousness of those she shares the earth with, finding solace in accepting the full rainbow of the human experience, whether “good” or “bad.”
She is interested in the intersection of ancient forms of knowledge and the landscape of our hyper-digital, post–postmodern world. Saylor believes it is possible for both modes of knowledge to co-create our reality in harmony when we take the time to make sense of them together.
Her work serves as an ever-growing metaphor and dialogue that suggests our lives supersede birth and death. At its heart is the idea that each individual’s place in this world is a vital puzzle piece for the growth, change, and unity of humanity.
Assistance and lighting: Delaney Crawford
Saylor Quin’s Parsons BFA Thesis Capstone Collection is an ode to Arizona and to the vast expanse each person contains—an exploration not of life or death, but of the multitudes in between. She views humanity as a complex color, shaped by countless shades intersecting over time. Guided by the belief that our time here is a rainbow of emotional experiences, her collection celebrates the acceptance of the entire spectrum, honoring both the light and the dark as essential parts of being human.
In this body of work, Saylor highlights the so-called “low” moments as contributors to the fullness of life rather than experiences to be villainized or “fixed.” Her designs draw on principles of balance—Yin and Yang, frequency and energy, the natural ebb and flow echoed in the cosmos within us. Without sadness, she suggests, we become flat; with it, we become dimensional, vibrant, whole.
Assistance and lighting: Delaney Crawford
To bring this vision to life, Saylor employs a hybrid approach that merges couture tailoring, metal and jewelry fabrication, translucent leather work, and sustainable natural dyeing and pattern-cutting techniques. Through this synthesis of craft, she creates pieces that reflect both technical rigor and emotional depth.
Saylor believes the collection offers a meaningful dialogue with audiences who value work that pushes boundaries, embraces complexity, and invites fresh perspectives. She is honored to share this Parsons thesis collection—an artistic testament to the beauty found in sadness, the safety found in our multitudes, and the profound color of being human.
I see color palates in my head, then I have to go on a long, windy and widely explorative journey to find what I saw in my head in tangible reality.
-Saylor Quin on how she chooses her color palettes.
