A cabinet card couple from the Chicago Photo Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa. Between them: a die-cut silhouette carrying the found text "the space she made." She stands apart from her own outline. Mixed media collage. One of a kind.
He sits. She stands. Between them, a third figure — her silhouette, emptied out and filled instead with layered handwritten text and the stamped words the space she made. The original cabinet card comes from A. St. Clair's Chicago Photo Gallery at 302 East Walnut Street, Des Moines, Iowa — a studio detail that grounds this piece in a specific place and moment. The woman has been cut from the photograph and repositioned to the right of her own ghost. The found text arrived and named what was already happening in the image. The silhouette is the subject.
This piece is part of a series exploring the same found text across different Victorian source material. Each stands fully on its own.
Dimensional mixed media collage. Found cabinet card (Chicago Photo Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa), die-cut silhouette element, found text strip, handwritten ephemera. Resin finish.
6” x 9” x 3”
A cabinet card couple from the Chicago Photo Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa. Between them: a die-cut silhouette carrying the found text "the space she made." She stands apart from her own outline. Mixed media collage. One of a kind.
He sits. She stands. Between them, a third figure — her silhouette, emptied out and filled instead with layered handwritten text and the stamped words the space she made. The original cabinet card comes from A. St. Clair's Chicago Photo Gallery at 302 East Walnut Street, Des Moines, Iowa — a studio detail that grounds this piece in a specific place and moment. The woman has been cut from the photograph and repositioned to the right of her own ghost. The found text arrived and named what was already happening in the image. The silhouette is the subject.
This piece is part of a series exploring the same found text across different Victorian source material. Each stands fully on its own.
Dimensional mixed media collage. Found cabinet card (Chicago Photo Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa), die-cut silhouette element, found text strip, handwritten ephemera. Resin finish.
6” x 9” x 3”
