jessica wildman katz

green silk dress deconstructed and respun into yarn, knotless netted around steel bra underwire

single channel video

dress fragments, scoured and screen printed silk organza, wool, cheesecloth, cattails, linen thread, brown paper lunch bags, garden soil, broken porcelain bowl

dress fragments and steel fishing hook

24 carat gold thread hand woven using knotted netting with copper gilded saplings

exhibited at the Grand Rapids Art Museum for Artprize 9

cast resin, plywood, stainless steel fasteners and paint

cast plaster

dress worn to Jimmy’s funeral, beeswax, projected transparency of Lake Erie