My Stolen Dress in the Congo [Fabric of Belonging Series]

Description: Consequence of Experience a series of rubbings which integrate text and image.

Rubbing a soft pencil stick over rag paper set on top of the surface of a child’s dress stiffened and dried with acrylic gel makes an impression on the paper and transfers the image of the dress to another surface as a form of printmaking. Rubbing gently transfers a vague translucent image. Pressing hard gives a bold impression. The rubbed impression is like belonging, sometime it feels bold and unmistakable and others times vague and doubtful. The impression taken from the real object can feel like two identities, one that is shown to the world and the other hidden behind. Written words on the rag paper conform to the image of the dress below but leave out bits for the viewer to reconstruct. Fabric dresses transferred as a rubbing can be like memory as it can fragment, fade, rip and unravel leaving gaping holes and absences.

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Date Made: 2014

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Exclamation Strada[Sign of a Place series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82308

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Date Made: 2014

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Dressing Up in the Ituri Forest [Fabric of Belonging Series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82315

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Date Made: 2014

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Consequence of Experience 24

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82312

Description: Consequence of Experience a series of rubbings which integrate text and image.

Rubbing a soft pencil stick over rag paper set on top of the surface of a child’s dress stiffened and dried with acrylic gel makes an impression on the paper and transfers the image of the dress to another surface as a form of printmaking. Rubbing gently transfers a vague translucent image. Pressing hard gives a bold impression. The rubbed impression is like belonging, sometime it feels bold and unmistakable and others times vague and doubtful. The impression taken from the real object can feel like two identities, one that is shown to the world and the other hidden behind. Written words on the rag paper conform to the image of the dress below but leave out bits for the viewer to reconstruct. Fabric dresses transferred as a rubbing can be like memory as it can fragment, fade, rip and unravel leaving gaping holes and absences.

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Date Made: 2014

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Consequence of Experience 32

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82314

Description: Consequence of Experience a series of rubbings which integrate text and image.

Rubbing a soft pencil stick over rag paper set on top of the surface of a child’s dress stiffened and dried with acrylic gel makes an impression on the paper and transfers the image of the dress to another surface as a form of printmaking. Rubbing gently transfers a vague translucent image. Pressing hard gives a bold impression. The rubbed impression is like belonging, sometime it feels bold and unmistakable and others times vague and doubtful. The impression taken from the real object can feel like two identities, one that is shown to the world and the other hidden behind. Written words on the rag paper conform to the image of the dress below but leave out bits for the viewer to reconstruct. Fabric dresses transferred as a rubbing can be like memory as it can fragment, fade, rip and unravel leaving gaping holes and absences.

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Date Made: 2014

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Beware of Road Surprise [Sign of a Place series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82307

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Date Made: 2014

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Migration [Sign of a Place series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82306

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Date Made: 2014

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Consequence of Experience 23

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82311

Description: Consequence of Experience a series of rubbings which integrate text and image.

Rubbing a soft pencil stick over rag paper set on top of the surface of a child’s dress stiffened and dried with acrylic gel makes an impression on the paper and transfers the image of the dress to another surface as a form of printmaking. Rubbing gently transfers a vague translucent image. Pressing hard gives a bold impression. The rubbed impression is like belonging, sometime it feels bold and unmistakable and others times vague and doubtful. The impression taken from the real object can feel like two identities, one that is shown to the world and the other hidden behind. Written words on the rag paper conform to the image of the dress below but leave out bits for the viewer to reconstruct. Fabric dresses transferred as a rubbing can be like memory as it can fragment, fade, rip and unravel leaving gaping holes and absences.

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Date Made: 2014

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Consequence of Experience 27

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82313

Description: Consequence of Experience a series of rubbings which integrate text and image.

Rubbing a soft pencil stick over rag paper set on top of the surface of a child’s dress stiffened and dried with acrylic gel makes an impression on the paper and transfers the image of the dress to another surface as a form of printmaking. Rubbing gently transfers a vague translucent image. Pressing hard gives a bold impression. The rubbed impression is like belonging, sometime it feels bold and unmistakable and others times vague and doubtful. The impression taken from the real object can feel like two identities, one that is shown to the world and the other hidden behind. Written words on the rag paper conform to the image of the dress below but leave out bits for the viewer to reconstruct. Fabric dresses transferred as a rubbing can be like memory as it can fragment, fade, rip and unravel leaving gaping holes and absences.

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Date Made: 2014

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My Stolen Dress in the Congo [Fabric of Belonging Series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82318

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Date Made: 2014

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Looted Dress in the Congo [Fabric of Belonging Series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82317

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Date Made: 2014

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Outside Inside Out

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82319

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Measurements: varied edition

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Date Made: 2014

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Pressure point plate

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82327

Description: Leaving Home explores the experience of displacement using electro-etching, probing what you physically carry and the emotional and spiritual baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss that you bring with you in your body.

The electro-etching process of metal displacement became central to the translation of my childhood experience of involuntary evacuation from a volatile, dangerous political situation. Humans continue to experience displacement due to many situations including natural disasters, economic imperatives or physical danger and insecurity. Baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss is carried physically and emotionally when you flee. No journey is certain when your world it turned upside down and you are force to leave the known for the unfamiliar.

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Date Made: 2016

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untitled 40 Outside Inside Series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82322

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Date Made: 2016

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Text on copper

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82330

Description: Leaving Home explores the experience of displacement using electro-etching, probing what you physically carry and the emotional and spiritual baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss that you bring with you in your body.

The electro-etching process of metal displacement became central to the translation of my childhood experience of involuntary evacuation from a volatile, dangerous political situation. Humans continue to experience displacement due to many situations including natural disasters, economic imperatives or physical danger and insecurity. Baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss is carried physically and emotionally when you flee. No journey is certain when your world it turned upside down and you are force to leave the known for the unfamiliar.

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Date Made: 2016

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Dress with Hearts [Leaving Home Series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82324

Description: Leaving Home explores the experience of displacement using electro-etching, probing what you physically carry and the emotional and spiritual baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss that you bring with you in your body.

The electro-etching process of metal displacement became central to the translation of my childhood experience of involuntary evacuation from a volatile, dangerous political situation. Humans continue to experience displacement due to many situations including natural disasters, economic imperatives or physical danger and insecurity. Baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss is carried physically and emotionally when you flee. No journey is certain when your world it turned upside down and you are force to leave the known for the unfamiliar.

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Date Made: 2016

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Pink Sweater Together [Leaving Home Series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82325

Description: Leaving Home explores the experience of displacement using electro-etching, probing what you physically carry and the emotional and spiritual baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss that you bring with you in your body.

The electro-etching process of metal displacement became central to the translation of my childhood experience of involuntary evacuation from a volatile, dangerous political situation. Humans continue to experience displacement due to many situations including natural disasters, economic imperatives or physical danger and insecurity. Baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss is carried physically and emotionally when you flee. No journey is certain when your world it turned upside down and you are force to leave the known for the unfamiliar.

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Date Made: 2016

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Suitcase

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82328

Description: Leaving Home explores the experience of displacement using electro-etching, probing what you physically carry and the emotional and spiritual baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss that you bring with you in your body.

The electro-etching process of metal displacement became central to the translation of my childhood experience of involuntary evacuation from a volatile, dangerous political situation. Humans continue to experience displacement due to many situations including natural disasters, economic imperatives or physical danger and insecurity. Baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss is carried physically and emotionally when you flee. No journey is certain when your world it turned upside down and you are force to leave the known for the unfamiliar.

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Date Made: 2016

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Underthings

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82329

Description: Leaving Home explores the experience of displacement using electro-etching, probing what you physically carry and the emotional and spiritual baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss that you bring with you in your body.

The electro-etching process of metal displacement became central to the translation of my childhood experience of involuntary evacuation from a volatile, dangerous political situation. Humans continue to experience displacement due to many situations including natural disasters, economic imperatives or physical danger and insecurity. Baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss is carried physically and emotionally when you flee. No journey is certain when your world it turned upside down and you are force to leave the known for the unfamiliar.

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Date Made: 2016

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Red Sweater [Leaving Home Series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82326

Description: Leaving Home explores the experience of displacement using electro-etching, probing what you physically carry and the emotional and spiritual baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss that you bring with you in your body.

The electro-etching process of metal displacement became central to the translation of my childhood experience of involuntary evacuation from a volatile, dangerous political situation. Humans continue to experience displacement due to many situations including natural disasters, economic imperatives or physical danger and insecurity. Baggage such as memory, familiarity, cultural identity, grief, sadness and loss is carried physically and emotionally when you flee. No journey is certain when your world it turned upside down and you are force to leave the known for the unfamiliar.

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Date Made: 2016

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untitled 59 Outside Inside Series]

Artist: Karen Cornelius

Work ID: 82323

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Date Made: 2016

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My Stolen Dress in the Congo [Fabric of Belonging Series]

Work by Karen Cornelius