hi, im sofia

I grew up on a small family farm in New York State. I drove tractors, threw hay, milked cows, raised pigs, and walked along acres in the heat and negatives. I was strong with broad shoulders and well-fed to keep up with Nature, in all her forms.

A combination of understanding and embracing by body and identity led me to accept that I wanted something different when it came to my clothing. In my early 20’s, I asked for a used Singer for my birthday, and I began to teach myself how to sew. For the first time, I experienced what it meant to have clothes that truly fit and represented me.

I began sewing using materials I could find at thrift stores, marketplaces, garage sales, and from family and friends. I started to make more things with materials from thrift stores and ebay mostly.

I fell in love with the practice of creating a three dimentional, utilitarian sculpture from materials with their own histories and stories to tell. I am heavily influenced by my childhood in rural America. All dirt, grease, rust, blisters, and vices when chores are done.

DOG TEETH was born while thinking about resistance, capitalism, and exploitation in the fashion industry, and what I could do in my own life.

We should be caring about our waste, production, and the way materials are left lost in the world. I believe we can and should reuse these things and imagine new, interesting and functional purposes for materials and goods.

I really am just a person teaching myself different trades and approaches; attempting to reclaim something as a common man. Everything is made by me at a wooden desk. They say Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You, but why not?

Every piece made is a tooth to bite back.