We are connected to objects in our emotional lives; they put us at ease, comforted by their familiarity. There are some that provide support, even protection—cushions and batting, fabrics and the threads that connect them. I’m intrigued by the physicality of those things, the surfaces that reveal traces of touch and repair, by the materiality that evokes ideas of an emotional or physical falling apart that is the very thing that draws us to them.
I use the image plane to reveal a space where ephemeral structures are rendered static, unveiling a relationship with the body in their wads, folds, breaks, stains and tears, in threads undone, knotted and torn by the hand’s movement. Their manipulated states are at times isolated and at others distorted, “known of old yet unfamiliar”. The photograph, tied up with all of its history, easily drawing relationships to experience, memory and emotion.
© 2005-2011 Jennifer Brandon