A-Z RAUGH UNIFORMS
When I was developing my new ideology called Raugh, I realized that I could evolve the Personal Panels to their most logical extreme by using only rectangle of fabric literally torn from the bolt. This reduced my activity in making a dress to a few minute modifications such as using safety pins to fasten a strap to fabric or a single strategic seam. While the Raugh garments require no expertise in both conception and construction, it took skill to make designs that looked both sophisticated and attractive

A-Z SINGLE STRAND UNIFORMS
One idiom behind the A-Z Personal Panels is that they are a first hand evolution of their former material. Eventually I realized that this dictate could be even more directly achieved by making clothing out of single strand- instead of woven fibres. The resulting "Single Strand Garments" were crocheted one per quarterly season. I liked crochet because it required the least number of implements possible the construction of the garment- a single crochet hook. (I would break the yard rather than cutting it with scissors) It was also perfect because it meant that I could create a dress anywhere anytime. With my hectic schedule, much of my otherwise wasted time spent on planes and traveling could be made both creative and productive.

A-Z HAND MADE STRANDED UNIFORMS
It might sound silly, but one of my biggest fears when I was in the process of crocheting a dress was that I would loose my hook. If that happened I would have to recalculate the gauge of my pattern to a different sized hook and start over again. Considering that each dress takes six to eight weeks of labor that could be a real setback. I began to wonder if there was a way to link yarn directly off of my fingers without using any extraneous tools (other than my own body). I liked the purity of this idea as it reminded me of an insect spinning it's own cocoon, but instead I would be using my body to weave a covering for itself. In the fall of 2001 I finally figured out a way to do this. The technique was simple but it just required practice and precision to control the tension correctly. As I gained skill, I started to make the patterns less linear and more abstract so that the resembled webs or uneven netting.

A-Z ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES: FIBER FORM UNIFORMS
Since 1991 the technical and conceptual evolution in the A-Z Uniforms Series has been gravitating towards increasingly direct way of making something. After I had finally reduced the tools of production to simply using my own hands, I then began to consider the material that I was using. What if I could trace the strand of yarn back to its original form as fiber? Now I am finally beginning to make most direct form of clothing possible by hand "felting" wool directly into the shape of a garment, and thereby inventing my own ways to make shirts and dresses. Because the clothing is made as one piece there are no seams involved, and when it is finished I use a safety pin to connect the two sides so that it will stay on! I have encapsulated this body of work under the heading "A-Z Advanced Technologies" which plays off of the way that something can be both incredibly primitive and quite sophisticated at the same time.
In other areas of A-Z Advanced Technologies I am also beginning to develop new materials and fabrication strategies for making furniture and objects that I use in the practice of my own day to day living.