All images © Jane Waggoner Deschner
resilience (Homer, harm done)
2011
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton
and Sulky metallic threads
17.25 x 11.5 inches
Once harm has been done,
even a fool understands it.
—Homer
resilience (Horne.I'm me)
2011
found photos, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton
Gutermann rayon and Sulky metallic threads
17.25 x 23 inches
resilience (Eliot, be)
2011
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton
and Sulky metallic threads
17.25 x 11.5 inches
It’s never to late to be what you might have been.
—George Eliot
resilience (Hugo, bird)
2011
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton
and Sulky metallic threads
17.25 x 11.5 inches
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her,
still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
—Victor Hugo
from the resilience series (Booth, Rule One)
2011
found photograph, cotton and rayon threads
17.225 x 11.5 inches
Rule One of all rules:
No one ever knows how much another hurts.
—Philip Booth
back detail of from the resilience series (Booth, Rule One)
from the maxim series (Duchamp, no problem)
2010
found photograph, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
10 x 7.875 inches
There is no solution for there is no problem.
—Marcel Duchamp
from the maxim series (row boat, Betty's boys)
2009
studio photos, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
20.25 x 22.375 inches
destroyed
from the symbol series (8th graders, skulls)
2011
found photographs, rayon thread
9.75 x 7 inches
from the maxim series (Vonnegut, no why)
2010
found photograph, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
9.875 x 8 inches
We are all trapped in the amber of the moment.
There is no why.
—Kurt Vonnegut
from the maxim series (Sting, no matter))
in collaboration with Robert E. Jackson
2011
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
9.375 x 7.25 inches
Be yourself, no matter what they say.
—Sting
from the maxim series (Proust, eyes)
2011
studio portraits, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
12 x 17.25 inches
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
—Marcel Proust
from the maxim series (Thoreau, Stewart & Granger)
2011
found movie photos, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
10.125 x 14 inches
Could a greater miracle take place than for us
to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
—Henry David Thoreau
from the maxim series (Twain, Carradine)
2011
found movie photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton & Sulky metallic threads
10 x 8 inches
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
—Mark Twain
from the maxim series (Thales, self)
2009
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
6.875 x 5 inches
from the garment series (family suit)
2009
vintage snapshots, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
46 x 52.5 x 3 inches
from the garment series (t-shirt, t-shirt)
2009
snapshots, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
27.5 x 31.25 x 2 inches
destroyed
from the garment series (mothers&sons)
2009
snapshots, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread 19.875 x 25.75 x 2 inches
from the garment series (little boy, dragon)
snapshots of James "Jimmy" Schelfhout
2011
found photographs, cotton, rayon and metallic threads
22.625 x 18.75 x 1.75 inches
A dragon lives forever but not so little boys.
—Peter Yarrow, “Puff the Magic Dragon”
from the maxim series (Huxley, debutants)
2010
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread & 100% rayon thread
8 x 9.875 inches
