JuliaVHendrickson
Repository (Travel Series)
Julia V. Hendrickson
Repository (Travel Series)
Photo polymer etchings
2009
The aim of art is to tidy up one’s inner and outer worlds.
–Agnès Varda, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
A suitcase’s existence implies a journey into the unknown, and its function is to provide a point of collection for a condensed world. As an artist who is also a collector of objects, I am drawn to the suitcase as a unique, liminal space between interior and exterior.
The things we collect are a glimpse into the inner workings of our minds—our hopes, memories, choices, and beliefs—yet they exist as a part of daily life and are therefore made invisible. I want to give these small, collected things value and weight. In these Repository (Travel Series) prints, by placing personal, collected objects in unknown locations, one is forced to question that which is taken for granted. Discomfort and confusion occur in the unexpected juxtaposition of familiarity and the unknown, in places without points of reference. My small, collected objects are made monumental, skewing perception of the visual space and placing them outside of time.
I believe, in this modern world where images are primarily digital, fleeting and ephemeral, that the images I create should have some grounding in a real, physical space. I am interested in making images that are not only about personal, physical things, but which are made physical and tangible in themselves.
Repository (Travel Series)
Julia V. Hendrickson
Repository (Travel Series)
Photo polymer etchings
2009
The aim of art is to tidy up one’s inner and outer worlds.
–Agnès Varda, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
A suitcase’s existence implies a journey into the unknown, and its function is to provide a point of collection for a condensed world. As an artist who is also a collector of objects, I am drawn to the suitcase as a unique, liminal space between interior and exterior.
The things we collect are a glimpse into the inner workings of our minds—our hopes, memories, choices, and beliefs—yet they exist as a part of daily life and are therefore made invisible. I want to give these small, collected things value and weight. In these Repository (Travel Series) prints, by placing personal, collected objects in unknown locations, one is forced to question that which is taken for granted. Discomfort and confusion occur in the unexpected juxtaposition of familiarity and the unknown, in places without points of reference. My small, collected objects are made monumental, skewing perception of the visual space and placing them outside of time.
I believe, in this modern world where images are primarily digital, fleeting and ephemeral, that the images I create should have some grounding in a real, physical space. I am interested in making images that are not only about personal, physical things, but which are made physical and tangible in themselves.