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“Grass Cocoon” (2018). All photographs © Jeanne Simmons, shared with authorization
“When we devote a great deal of time in a put, and if we are shelling out notice, a sort of intimacy develops,” says Jeanne Simmons. The artist, who’s based mostly in the Pacific Northwest, grounds her practice in this perception of familiarity and relieve with her environment. “We appear to know the vegetation that develop there and the critters that roam there… We may even begin to come to feel that we ourselves have develop into component of that location, and it is this experience that sustains and conjures up me.”
Following accumulating natural supplies like branches, wild veggies, and bark, Simmons constructs garments that intertwine her have entire body and those people of some others with the landscape and obscure the difference concerning the two. In one particular operate, a full skirt created of Queen Anne’s Lace trails from the artist’s waist and blends with a meadow, when an additional piece braids dried vegetation into a model’s blond hair, establishing a toes-very long braid that appears to arise from the ground. “Grass Cocoon” is similar, twisting locks into the materials and swaddling a figure’s system in a sheath of green. “This is how I rejoice and deepen my connection with the organic entire world. I suppose I have discovered that the best way for me to become section of the landscape… is to have on it,” she shares. “It is also, at minimum in aspect, a lamentation for the catastrophic decline of that link that we are witnessing in actual-time.”
Simmons has quite a few will work in development at the instant, which include a kelp shroud and fennel gown, and is collaborating with director and producer Ward Serrill on a film about her apply. Continue to keep up with those people assignments on her internet site and Instagram. (by way of Lustik)
“Grass Cocoon” (2018)
“Extensions” (2020)
“Lace Skirt” (2019)
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