Garments of Grass and Flowers Fuse Jeanne Simmons’s Body to the Landscape



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“Grass Cocoon” (2018). All photographs © Jeanne Simmons, shared with authorization

“When we shell out a lot of time in a put, and if we are having to pay focus, a variety of intimacy develops,” says Jeanne Simmons. The artist, who’s dependent in the Pacific Northwest, grounds her exercise in this perception of familiarity and ease with her surroundings. “We arrive to know the vegetation that increase there and the critters that roam there… We may even start off to come to feel that we ourselves have turn into component of that place, and it is this sensation that sustains and conjures up me.”

After collecting pure components like branches, wild greens, and bark, Simmons constructs garments that intertwine her possess overall body with the landscape and obscure the difference in between the two. In just one work, a whole skirt manufactured of Queen Anne’s Lace trails from her waist and blends with a meadow, even though a different piece braids dried vegetation into her blond hair, creating a toes-prolonged braid that seems to arise from the floor. “Grass Cocoon” is equivalent, twisting the artist’s locks into the content and swaddling her entire body in a sheath of eco-friendly. “This is how I rejoice and deepen my relationship with the pure entire world. I suppose I have uncovered that the ideal way for me to become part of the landscape… is to wear it,” she shares. “It is also, at the very least in element, a lamentation for the catastrophic reduction of that relationship that we are witnessing in serious-time.”

Simmons has several functions in development at the second, like a kelp shroud and fennel robe, and is collaborating with director and producer Ward Serrill on a film about her practice. Maintain up with those people tasks on her web-site and Instagram. (via Lustik)

 

“Grass Cocoon” (2018)

“Extensions” (2020)

“Lace Skirt” (2019)

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#land art
#mother nature

 

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