The paper in this piece is made by incorporating found plants into the pulp during the papermaking process. Once dried the sheets are rolled into circles and assembled onto a found branch. Irrigation and A Little Rain for Spring was made in observation of the California drought in 2022 and reflects on the effects climate change has on the visual landscape.

Drought 2

Pieces of Drought

"Alone with my thoughts"

Close To Silence is an abstract surrealistic collage series made by Iris Jacobs. 
It is cut paper created analogue out of old books and magazines. She photographs the originals and print them on canvas paper. The originals are available as well. The series had two exhibitions in Barcelona (Salitre, Stansa Collective)  and contains more works which you can see on the website.

In the series 'Close To Silence' Iris Jacobs explores the possibility of finding peace in a world that is ever more screaming for our attention. 
The imaginary spaces and places she creates offer some sort of escape, but are never completely accesible. They draw you in, but simultaneously confront you wtih the impossibility of doing so, both by their abstract nature and their multi dimesionality. 




Close To Silence Mixed Media Collage Series, by Studio Iris Jacobs

In Dry Grass

Zinnias

Cover Crop

Drought 1

The paper in this installation is made by incorporating found plants into the pulp during the papermaking process. Once dried the sheets are rolled into circles and assembled onto a found branch. Irrigation and A Little Rain for Spring was made in observation of the California drought in 2022 and reflects on the effects climate change has on the visual landscape.

Irrigation and A Little Rain for Spring

The paper is made by incorporating found plants into the pulp during the papermaking process. Once dried the sheets are rolled into circles and assembled onto a found branch. Olive and Calendula was made in observation of the California drought in 2022 and reflects on the effects climate change has on the visual landscape and native plants.

Olive and Calendula

Fleeting moment

Umask

Lucid

Daydream

Reverie

Design

“Quiet strength is still strength.”
This piece is inspired by this quote. Seeking to highlight the power within, highlighting the power and beauty in vulnerability. 

“Rise”

"phases"

"The experience of the non-place is today an essential component of any social existence." (Marc Augé)
Every day we live in spaces without an identity such as elevators, shopping malls or trains: we go through non-places.
This research wanted to focus on what happens when the non-place, as Augé says, "will be for a long time, perhaps forever, our home."
If identity is also and above all constructed in the relationship with the other, when someone loses the ability to be-with, he or she finds oneself living in intimate places that tell about our emptiness and incommunicability with the outside world, in a still present and infinite. That state of stillness, of an endless time, can become a psychic non-place where it is possible to recognize an emotional experience and to rework it.
From a painful emotional intimacy, a new intimacy made of acceptance and tolerance for our frailties can arise just when we open ourselves to the relationship with ourselves and with others.


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