Here are some hoodies I made, mostly out of laser cut old tee-shirts. I cut them a few years back, hand sewing and embroidering them over the last few years.
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I will be showing some book projects at the Independent Book Fair on September 21-23 in New York. I will be showing with Eric Hagan and Marianne Petit as the Forward-Backward Collective. Here’s a few images.
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Pockets Video
A lot of items of women’s clothing are sadly lacking in pockets. To address this problem, I made a lot of pockets that could be worn around your neck, or tied around your waist from old tee-shirts and sweatshirts. These were cut out on a laser cutter and hand stitched together.
Jeff Feddersen made a video of me talking about my pockets and some of the other work I did on the laser cutter during my sabbatical when I was a visiting scholar at ITP. Here it is.
ITP FAB: Jody from Jeff Feddersen on Vimeo.
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Dreams and Stories from Freud and Augustine
I have been working on short animated pieces based on City of God by Augustine and dream interpretation material of Sigmund Freud. I decided to make physical objects using some of the same imagery and texts, combining digital fabrication techniques with hand building and embroidery.
The imagery from these texts, (from Freud, small children as vermin, the human body as a house; from Augustine, Rome burning, seven headed beasts, generals eating entrails) was both inspirational and somewhat disturbing.
I have laser etched on a variety of materials, usually recycled fabrics, such as old towels and sweatshirts. I have also created cardboard automata using some of the images from the stories. Additionally, I have created a hand-sewn and embroidered book with text and images from Freud that uses a potentiometer and servo motors to turn its pages.
Here’s a video of one of the automata.
Rat Automaton from jody culkin on Vimeo.
And here are a few images of the laser etched towels, automata, and books.
This summer at ITP camp I made a few more lamps with laser cut parts, finishing up most of the ones that use fabric in the last few weeks. Here are a few pictures. One of the cut-up tee shirt lamps has buttons attached so you can “button up” the lamp various ways.
This year at ITP Camp I made laser cut lamps, some cut from old tee-shirts and other fabrics, some from acrylic cut and formed into chains or chain mail.
