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Gallery One: Textiles : Jackets
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The jackets were begun in 1979 after a hitch-hiking trip across Canada. The impetous for the first peice was a sense of wonderment, communion and personal transformation. This, combined with a life-long disbelief in the politics of destruction, resulted in the West Coast Jacket (1980), a flexible peice of stained glass, kinetic sculpture that becomes a deeply expressive 'other skin'. The exclusive use of military jackets is essential. A fundamental aspect of the work is the promotion of demilitarization, the taking of something mass-produced, de-humanizing, with a function specific to destruction, and through the contemplative and prolonged interaction with it, by the action of creating, reinvigorate it with a celebration of life which permanently removes it from it's previous function. |
![]() Dripping, Beaded Military Jacket, 1984-87 |
![]() Night Sky, Embroidered Military Jacket, 2001 |
![]() West Coast, Beaded Military Jacket, 1980 |
![]() Grateful, Embroidered Military Jacket, 1981-88 |
![]() Flowersun, Beaded Military Jacket, 1988-2004 |
![]() Moonflow, Beaded Military Jacket, 2003 |
![]() Forest Canopy, Beaded Military Jacket, 1988/2003-04 |
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