Jacob Strock

Abominable Amalgamation 002: Fashion

mixed-media sculpture and collage – magazine cutouts collaged onto a button-down shirt stuffed with t-shirts and a wig, draped upon a 27”x12” stretched canvas attached to a clothes hanger

30″x30″x4″

2022

Created for Strut, “Fashion” is the second installment in my new collage series of what I dub “abominable amalgamations.” This work allows me to throw every material I have at the canvas without abandon, without standards for myself, without expectations, and with a sense of play, release, and discovery. The meanings of each work is shown to me progressively as I work on it. This one, of course, releases ideas of fashionable expression, gender expression and expectations, personal expression and time periods of fashion trends.

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