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Woven Spaces, Hyde Park Art Center, 2013 Chain link fence, natural dye materials acquired from Chicago empty lots, and cotton fabric. Read an essay by Jason Pallas here

Woven Spaces, thoughts on vacant lots, Grace lee Boggs. Jaclyn Jacunski, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago Front and Center
Chain link fence, natural dye materials acquired from Chicago empty lots, and cotton fabric.
6' x 15' apprx.
2013
Sculpture, natural dye fabric from the land, garbage, vancant lots, Chicago, Grace Lee Boggs
Chain link fence, natural dye materials acquired from Chicago empty lots, and cotton fabric.
6' x 15' apprx.
2013
Sculpture, natural dye fabric from the land, garbage, vancant lots, Chicago, Grace Lee Boggs
Chain link fence, natural dye materials acquired from Chicago empty lots, and cotton fabric.
6' x 15' apprx.
2013
Sculpture of Bricks, inspired by vancant lots in Chicago and Grace Lee Boggs, Jaclyn Jacunski, Front and Center, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago
Stoneware, porclien, and plywood
3 sets: 23" x 12" x 42" apprx.
2013
Sculpture, bricks, chain link fence, tool, view, Jaclyn Jacunski, garbage, vancant lots, Chicago, Grace Lee Boggs
Stoneware, porcelain, and plywood
3 sets: 23" x 12" x 42" apprx.
2013
Sculpture, bricks, chain link fence, tool, view, Jaclyn Jacunski, garbage, vancant lots, Chicago, Grace Lee Boggs
Stoneware, porcelain, and plywood
3 sets: 23" x 12" x 42" apprx.
2013
Garfield Park Installation for the Edra Soto's 
The Franklin
Chain link fence, natural dye materials acquired from Chicago empty lots, and cotton fabric.
2013
Inaugural Front Yard Installation
Naturally dyed fabric with collected materials of the landscapes in Grafield Park's vacant lots
2013

To make these sculptures I have taken materials from vacant lots to guide my work engaging with the land and community. As a starting point in the works, I use the structure of a chain-link fence that surrounds empty lots in Chicago. I used the fence from a lot that is connected to my apartment and formed bricks by pushing clay through the wire. I then used the bricks to rebuild a new barricade.

Detroit activist Grace Lee Boggs promotes empty lots as a challenge to the community. She believes that laying claim and taking over these spaces without permission can produce massive cultural change. Boggs sees vacant lots and abandoned houses as opportunities to provide not only the space to begin anew but also as incentives to create innovative ways of making our living—ways that nurture our productive and cooperative selves. The sculptures that I have made for this exhibition consider these dynamics.
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