Lifers

Noelle Hamlyn’s Lifers is a series of lifejackets remade using suit jackets and sport coats, the usual trappings of white-collar work. Hamlyn carefully repurposes flotation devices inspired by the Titanic—the “unsinkable ship” that ultimately met a hubristic end.

In this juxtaposition, privilege prevails. Hamlyn calls attention to the differently-felt effects of precarity, injustice, and inequality amid the many icebergs we navigate—from the current pandemic to climate change, to name but two.