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Now on view: Para(site)dise at the William King Museum of Art (opens the original)
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Why hello, it’s Jocelyn Mathewes from my home studio in Appalachia.Para(site)dise opened this August with a lively and engaged crowd for the museum members’ reception and Hannah Harvey’s storytelling performance.This exhibition was over a year in the making; I can’t help but be awed, buoyed, and disbelieving all at once. Watching several pieces come to life in the space was especially rewa
The Bed (opens the original)
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Why hello, it’s Jocelyn Mathewes from the 3rd floor of the William King Museum. And I’m here to talk to you about what a bed means to me.<img alt="" class="sizing-large" height="675" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QKIk!,w_
Para(site)dise opens next week (opens the original)
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Why hello, it’s Jocelyn Mathewes from my home studio in Appalachia. And this past weekend, I dropped off my work at the William King Museum of Art for installation.The phrase to “drop” as in “release something to the public” likely has origins in the way that newspaper trucks would “drop” the latest news onto the streets. Musicians will “drop” an album, we “drop” episodes of podcasts or a movie “drops.” The semantic expansion has grown overwhelming.But I’d like to talk specifically about how in
stitching fabric, stitching flesh (opens the original)
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Why hello, it’s Jocelyn Mathewes from my home studio in Appalachia. And we’re here to take a closer look at one of my photography and paper-based pieces, The Water Was Troubled (Wound Repair in a Sterile Environment).In this work as in others, I intentionally select stitching methods that are a bridge between the domestic and the medical — the herringbone, blanket, and overcasting stitches, among others,<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ia
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