 | Worn contemplates the presence and absence of someone through images of clothing that bear signs of age and use. A hole in a piece of fabric can vividly mark a moment in history or recall passing time. A loose thread can trigger the memory of a specific experience relating to the person who wore the garment. Clothes are very intimate objects that have direct contact with a body and can conform to the physical body they cover. Clothes can thin, fade and deteriorate or endure generations. Much like a photographic portrait, clothes represent tangible traces of an individual, which evoke a person’s characteristic movements and personality. The arrangement and positioning of the objects, twisted, draped over a chair, reverentially folded, allude to the person who filled the clothes and to the one who is left behind. Touching an article of clothing that was worn by a particular person can be a precious experience that resurrects his or her smell, warmth and very existence.
Works are presented as 20" x 24" gelatin silver prints from wet-collodion negatives. |
