Jenna Van Buekenhout
Transferable Skills, 2024
wool fibre, wool yarn, rayon thread, scrap fabric, silk tie 12" x 9" x 16"
It's just found out that it's expected to have a job to continue being a thing. Made in a series of successive struggles to attain financial stability. Rough out there for rocks made of yarn.
Jenna Van Buekenhout
Dereal Looker, 2024
wool fibre, cotton yarn, cotton embroidery floss, thread scrap, wire, resin, acrylic paint, nailpolish 3" x 3" x 7"
An inquisitive peer when it feels safe, the Looker is prone to collapse into derealization if it finds itself too perceived by anyone (even itself.)
Jenna Van Buekenhout
Why Don’t You Simply (Move the Rock), 2022
Wool, embroidery floss, polyester velvet, fibrefill, a rock. 8" x 11" x 9"
Why Don't You Simply Move (The Rock), is a pair of textile eyes coming from the base of a rock. It resembles both a cartoon creature crushed by a rock that has fallen on it, and a pair of eyes attached to a brain. It is about petrifying pressure that can be caused by external assumptions, and refers to a sentiment that dismisses unseen difficulties caused by mundanely painful experiences. I was once asked why I didn't respond to anxious feelings by relaxing, overlooking the fact that anxiety is often caused by an inability to relax. My experience has been that trying harder petrifies further, as the weight bears down.
Jenna Van Buekenhout
Sedimentary Time, 2024
various yarns, reclaimed foam 16" x 7" x 6"
3D woven rock made in the company of friends, creating a sentimental record that is represented in sedimentary ways.
