Work > Leftovers

Leftovers was a solo exhibition at Jennifer Lorraine Fraser's experimental micro museum the shoe box gallery in April of 2017.

Leftovers residing at the shoe box gallery celebrate small collections. Each white cube creates a home to objects that were once part of larger collections. Though incomplete, each collection's power to invoke vivid memories remains strong and their form holds potential for story telling. Through placement, narratives are created within the new walls of their existence. The origins of the collections are varied. Some of the collections come from towering vegetation along a local creek, a debris riddled beach along a great lake, a ditch along a prairie highway, a rock pile along the base of a mountain and a hilly graveyard along the ocean. A few of the collections are made up of inherited objects that were no longer needed by relatives or friends yet were well crafted, too kitschy to be true, or of some imagined historical importance. One collection memorializes an occupation within an industry that was difficult to navigate and the garments I wore everyday to work at a funeral parlour, were kept and transformed. These collections are combined with textile collections that were acquired through hand me downs, yard sales and boulevard waste. These threads, yarns, lace, ribbons and yardage are meaningful leftover collections themselves and used to wrap other objects adding colour and comfort to their incomplete existence. Leftovers are discarded by some as they are no longer new; their original design has been fulfilled and they will just go bad in the fridge. Though the collections grow dusty and take up more space than I have to give, they are worthy of the space and I don't dust anyway. They are cherished, sometimes more than the first time they were experienced, because that original moment is gone, inaccessible and this gives way to embellishment.

Victoria's Dreads
dreadlocks, beads and handspun tissue paper
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Etched Glass
antique bottles, chemistry bottles, yarn and threads
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Seed Starters
thread, cotton, soil and paper tubes
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
In Memorium
cut up funeral suits, employee badge, lapel pins, yarn, fabric and handspun paper
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Pods and Shuttles
antique shuttles, loom reed, golden rod pods wrapped in handspun paper and yarns
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Coasters, Bells and Ducks
shell inlaid rosewood coasters, wooden ducks, ceramic bells, lace, bangles, plastic lei and wooden hoop
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
In Memorium II
cut up funeral suits, walnut dyed handkerchief, handspun paper and yarns, roll of hand knitted indigo and madder dyed cotton thread
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Birch Bark Bed
birch bark, lichen, fungi, eco dyed cotton
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Brushes
assortment of brushes and wool carder
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
In Memorium III
cut up funeral suits, indigo dyed table cloth, handspun paper and yarn ,
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Wood Wrapped Warp
wooden branches cut into 3 inch lengths wrapped with cotton warp from failed loom set up
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Broken Again
broken cutting board and power bards wrapped in handpsun wool, hand dyed threads and yarns
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
In Memorium IV
cut up funeral suits, indigo dyed cotton, lace, yarn and handspun paper
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Bones and Lace
bones, plastic skull, lace, jewelry, fabric and handspun paper
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Erie's Shore, Montana Highway, Bonavista's Edge
rock collections, chunks of painted asphalt, barnacles, shells and fossils
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017
Pockets and Cones
jean pockets, spools of threads and cones of threads
photograph by Jennifer Lorraine Fraser
2017