Reflexed Goa

Online exhibition · Ten objects · Goa, India

Waste is a failure of imagination.

Red shoulder bag made from a retired kitesurf sail, hand-embroidered with a pair of eyes, on a wooden table in Goa — No. 01 — Third Eye Shoulder Bag Retired kitesurf sail · Hand embroidery · Available

Introduction

Reflexed is a small design studio in Goa. We make one-of-a-kind bags and jackets from materials that have already lived a life: kitesurf sails that have flown their last season, event banners printed for a single weekend, worn-out denim, and umbrellas broken by the monsoon.

Each object is made once, numbered, and photographed before it leaves the studio. When a piece sells it stays in the exhibition, marked with a red dot.

Enter the exhibition

The exhibition

Ten objects, each made once.

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            No. 01
            Available
          

Third Eye Shoulder Bag

Retired kitesurf sail, hand embroidery, glass beads

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            No. 02
            Available
          

Tri-Zip Sling

Retired kitesurf sail, metal zips

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            No. 03
            Available
          

Red Belt Bag

Retired kitesurf sail, webbing, buckle

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            No. 04
            Available
          

Hooded Sail Jacket

Retired kitesurf sail, black and printed panels

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            No. 05
            Sold
          

Two-Tone Sail Jacket

Retired kitesurf sail, white and grey panels

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            No. 06
            Available
          

Flamingo Tote

Retired flex banner, printed both sides

₹ [price]

Material library

Four materials, documented.

Every object links back to the story of what it was made from, and every material lists the objects it became.

Open the library

Flat lay of retired kitesurf sail panels in blue, red, white and black

01 · 5 objects

Kitesurf sails

Ripstop canopy cloth and reinforced edges. Retired when the kite loses its shape; the fabric is still strong, light and quick to dry.

Printed flex banner with flamingos, sewn into a tote

02 · 1 object

Flex banners

PVC flex printed for one event, then taken down. Tough, wipe-clean, and the print becomes the pattern.

[Denim photograph]

03 · [n] objects

Denim

Jeans and jackets past the point of repair, collected locally. [Story and photographs to come]

[Umbrella photograph]

04 · [n] objects

Broken umbrellas

Monsoon casualties. The ribs snap but the canopy is intact, water-resistant and already cut into panels. [Story and photographs to come]

Close-up of the hand-embroidered eyes and running stitch on the red shoulder bag

About

Made in Goa, one at a time.

Reflexed is a small studio working between the beach and the workbench. Materials are collected locally, cleaned, unpicked and re-cut by hand. The original marks are kept: the printed numbers, the sail-maker's stitching, the fading.

Every object carries the question the studio started with. If waste is a failure of imagination, what else could this be?

The studio and the process