Jenna Van Buekenhout
Transferable Skills, 2024
wool fibre, wool yarn, rayon thread, scrap fabric, silk tie 12" x 9" x 16"
It's just found out that it's expected to have a job to continue being a thing. Made in a series of successive struggles to attain financial stability. Rough out there for rocks made of yarn.
Jenna Van Buekenhout
Dereal Looker, 2024
wool fibre, cotton yarn, cotton embroidery floss, thread scrap, wire, resin, acrylic paint, nailpolish 3" x 3" x 7"
An inquisitive peer when it feels safe, the Looker is prone to collapse into derealization if it finds itself too perceived by anyone (even itself.)
Jenna Van Buekenhout
Why Don’t You Simply (Move the Rock), 2022
Wool, embroidery floss, polyester velvet, fibrefill, a rock. 8" x 11" x 9"
As the weight of its own reality bears down, the added mass of thoughtless voices crushes the matter completely.