HUMANS:

THE ANATOMY OF EMOTIONS

(Mixed Avant Garde and Haute Couture Fashion Designs)

- Gie Grajo
“We are only humans, after all.”
 MUSCULAR SYSTEM

RESPIRAROTY SYSTEM

NERVOUS SYSTEM

SKELETAL SYSTEM

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

MUSCULAR SYSTEM

RESPIRAROTY SYSTEM

NERVOUS SYSTEM

SKELETAL SYSTEM

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
I am a transwoman and just like you, I am also a HUMAN. Due to my gender identity, I got bullied a lot when I was
young. Since then, I built myself to be stronger each day, so that no one can come after me. This is until I realized that I
was doing it all wrong the whole time.
In 2019, I suffered the biggest breakdown of my life. I was diagnosed with a severe mixed anxiety depressive disorder.
During my healing process, I realized that I am not really getting stronger, I was just making myself ‘look’ stronger all
this time by putting layers and layers of strong characteristics, accomplishments, and other things that can cover all
my vulnerabilities. It was like, all these bad experiences in my life are just stuck inside me, became the glue to the
strong layers I put in me, and then, one day, just burst as my mind cannot hold them any longer.
I want to be myself again. I know that this is the only way for me to heal. However, I do not even know myself
anymore. It is hard to break all these thick layers that I put on me.
And then I met drag. Before, I just knew art is a way to express your feelings in different ways possible, but I have no
idea how to do it maybe, because I was not born an artist. I watched so many Rupaul’s Drag Race seasons and what I
have noticed is that what they are doing is the same as what I did before but instead of putting these layers of
madness, they are making this kind of façade to express their feelings through arts.
‘Maybe this is it. Maybe this is the one that will fix me.’ I said to myself.
Here I come today, introducing myself to fashion, one of many types of drag. I want to learn all these types and I want
to start here.
This collection represents me as a human; or maybe even you. As I know, I am not the only one who has these
experiences. This collection symbolizes the raw emotions inside me that I want to reach for me to know myself again.
Hence, I present, HUMANS: The Anatomy of Emotions”