Rent II Material:Clothing previously worn to funerals, thread Like a finely engineered machine

Like a finely engineered machine frozen in time

Low Transparency: Danté Carver

In Jake’s latest work

reclaimed pine

this latest black and white series of photographs entitled

Rent II Material:Clothing previously worn to funerals, thread Like a finely engineered machine"This series is made from clothing worn in mourning. Inspired by a personal experience with a dress I wore to my mothers funeral and could never bring myself to put on again, I asked family and friends whether they too had clothing too tainted by association to wear. Slowly I began collecting clothessometimes decades oldthat had languished unworn in the backs of closets, too distressing to wear and too sentimental to just throw away. Handling these