I came across the artist, Jane Waggoner Deschner who works
purely with old photos, a needle & thread creating intriguing and unique
artworks. When I found her work I first saw the clothes she produced by
stitching together found black and white snapshots, so in a way recycling them.
The perfection of the clothes in this image is incredible as if encapsulating
all of the people’s memories in the photos within the suit. Even though how it
is photographed is purely showcasing the work it is as if it is floating in
space, in the past, untouchable created by the black void surrounding it.
I
then discovered the images stitched into using particular words to mirror the
scene or event depicted; I like the look of these images speaking to the
audience, making you wonder what happened to them & the clothes worn. Jane
Waggoner Deschner uses these projects to uncover & learn about our
essential humanity & explores what has changed through time.
By stitching
into the images she is both destroying & mending, puncturing &
suturing, wounding & healing but fundamentally turning one person’s waste
into another’s treasure as they are found photographs, unwanted by a previous
owner.
She creates ‘wearable photo albums’ which made me begin to
think about what certain items of clothing are to their owners while one person
may believe it holds an important memory which they don’t want to throw away,
another person may believe it’s just a piece of fabric, not needed and
therefore a waste product. I feel, a dress like a photograph may provoke
emotions and memories but is it a waste to store it away as a memento rather
than allowing someone else to create their own special memories with it?
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