Jennifer Kirkpatrick

Ornament is designs, motifs, and patterns worked into objects for the pleasure of outline, color, or fantasy. Whether it is carved terra cotta embellishments, wrought iron tracery, wallpaper, light fixtures, window placement, or any of the plethora of items that suffuse architectural spaces, this collection of parts assembles a collage of decorative layers fixed in my memory. Like anything we see every day, these decorative elements become so familiar as to work subliminally, like a visual background music noticed only when it disappears. By cutting designs from their familiar contexts, I am re-envisioning the complex display that I see in cityscapes and mediating to bring forward components reliant on other objects and making them into independent forms. Cities have become a conglomeration of varying styles, all interacting as part of the contemporary urban fabric throughout the world that is in constant evolution. The individual components of my work are assembled from the global cityscape drawn from many places and times. Free Standing sculptures take these reimagined ornamental forms and make them tangible for a viewer to interact with.
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