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Mercury 20 Gallery at XV: 15 Years of Art and Community, softcover, 124 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1/3 inches, 2021.
Christine Meuris Veiled, saddle-stitch, 48 pages, 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 2021.
Kathleen King Aided, Inspired, Multiplied, softcover, 38 pages, 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 2020.
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The Japanese word for cut, kire, is more connected to aesthetics than its English counterpart. The aim of cutting is to create ma, a word that roughly translates as negative space or betweenness. Jeans, made of cotton and indigo, are deeply rooted in slavery. Through an act of unmaking, I use Japanese shears to dissect and strip (kire) the functionality of clothing, focusing on the material’s meaning. This work speaks of my own complicity in systemic racial injustice. I expose seams from below the surface, cut and assemble individual flies, and roll up balls of jean strips. No longer a castoff, this material is imbued with potentiality and through my process of close examination (ma), it remakes me.
25% of the artist’s proceeds will go to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the Equal Justice Initiative.
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