Patched is an ongoing series of photographs where map paper (made from maps of places I have been to) is embedded into trees where the bark naturally peels away as an act of offering or mending.
Could the landscape be an archive remembering every mark and every trace set upon it? Will my footprints still be here when I am no longer? For how long will the traces of me stay on the surface of the earth?
I feel for places.
We walk all over them.
We stomp on them.
We forget about them.
Rarely do we visit.
And when we do –
We drop by unannounced.
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Patched is an art installation by artist Jackie Partridge where she uses the paper making process to alter trees with maps.
Patched by Jackie Partridge is an art installation that combines handmade map paper and trees in an outdoor land art installation.
Patched by artist Jackie Partridge is an outdoor installation that uses handmade paper with maps embedded on trees. The artist takes a photograph of the installation.
Patched by Jackie Partridge art installation that uses handmade map paper on trees.
These poems are letter pressed on handmade map paper made with the support of a New Generation Artist Grant from OAC.
four hand cut atlases, wooden table and wooden stools, stools 14”x 17.75”, table 46”x 42”, 2018
What Is and What Was includes four wooden stools circling a table inviting viewers to sit down and view four altered North American and Canadian atlases. As the pages turn houses are removed from the page showing the changing landscape both through the altering of cut-outs and the found object of the atlas continuing to outdate itself.
atlas cut-outs, plywood, shelf-10.5”x 8”, floor piece- 4’x 2.5’, 2018
Piled Up uses the cut-outs from What Is and What Was to create a hill of houses that spills over onto the floor.
handmade paper from found maps, wooden dowels, installation-16’ x 7.5’, 2018
Places I Have Been is made from found maps of places I have been or lived. The map paper is folded as a traditional map is and rests on wooden dowels extending from the wall. The folded paper represents both an outdated map that is no longer functional and references to landscapes it embodies.
map paper, photograph, 2020
This performance took place at a time when I felt very lost just graduating my MFA and entering “the real world.” Using a constructed large sheet of handmade paper made with countless torn road maps of places I have been and refolded to take the shape of a map.
I try to make sense of a map that does not have function or provide guidance much like the road to self-discovery.
Size varies, twisted maps, 2017- Present
Twisted maps create a nest, a home and a landscape.
Photo Credit: Eliane Excoffier
Birds Adapted: For Flight or Fancy, Teresa Seaton Gallery, Burlington, ON, 2019
twisted found maps, pins and nails, installation approx. 70’ x 3’, 2018
Precariously Perched is a two wall installation where twisted maps balance on tiny pins and nails. The installation creates an abstracted horizon line that also mimics the feeling of a walk. Some maps lay on the floor signalling a passage of time.
Photo Credit: Eliane Excoffier
8'x4', found clothing, hanger and handmade blue jean paper, 2016
Using my retired grandfather's farm clothing I created paper from the natural fibres and used the seams of the clothing to create a drawing.
Remnants, 2021, outdoor installation on grandparents clothesline, photos taken by the artist.
projection, wooden stands, dyed burlap, abaca and map paper, 29"x 36",29"x48", 29"x 52", 2017
Photo Credits: Eliane Excoffier
Three bundles of burlap and paper drape over individual stands referencing drooping fields or livestock. The work looks both dead and alive.
18'x 3', sewing and flax paper, 2015-2016
the sewn fields are suspended away from the wall creating dual shadows. The sewn fields represent the fragility of the land.
2016-present
An ongoing series of handmade paper houses photographed in natural environments.
photographs, 23”x 28”, 2018
A Nook For A Nest is a series of photographs that includes twisted maps in environmental installations that depicts the transitory and temporary homes.
