Founded in 2022, Buzz Szilagyi started this project of salvaged material apparel under the brand name Hell is 2 Blurry (a.k.a. Hell is Too Blurry & Hi2B). Aesthetically Hi2B leans into different era's of streetwear and casual garments through a pastiche reimagining of the hippy patchwork sewing technique Buzz grew up watching his grandma Elaine use. 

This patchwork assembly style is part of the wabi sabi nature of the Hi2B practice. Wabi Sabi is a Japanese concept about accepting and appreciating the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. Each piece in his collection embodies this concept by embracing  the laissez-fair condition of discarded textiles.

Hi2B's production commitment to incorporating second-hand materials is the deep ecology aspect of this project. People don't hold a higher worth within our planets ecosystem but we do hold a more complex and exploitative relationship with it. Because of that relationship it's our responsibility to develop less harmful processes of production. That belief is deep ecology. 

This project is about playfully and unconventionally re-envisioning the uses of materials beyond commonly retired textiles; plastic shopping bags, upholstery samples, mesh produce bags, strapping from the Vietnam war, bubble wrap, old tent covers, etc. Hi2B utilizes these supplies not as a green washed trend but as part of the growing movement of new brands on a mission to normalize recycling as a primary method of production.