Jes Bonnie

Tender Fragments

Series of three photographic sculptures

“"Tender Fragments" is a series of three large scale sculptures that venture into the ephemerality of memory and intimacy utilizing the distortion of images printed on fleece blankets as the primary material. The three imposing pieces bearing five unique images loiter within the space, each distinctly embodying the printed textile's image. Iterative photographs transform into restrained, contorted, and bulging vessels; pushing their visual textures into a realm of decadent surrealism. The selected images include an internal surgical view of the artist's uterus, a crushed insect, and a concrete body cast of a lover's collarbone. A painterly moment of sapphic embrace collides with a raw, glistening cross-section of sliced fish at a local market. Each image echoes the same language of an aching and intimate aesthetic. Memory woven into sculptural image, pixels crunching and warping at their dramatically reborn scale, feebly recalling their original forms. Existing at the intersection of aesthetic beauty and revulsion, the artworks remind us of moments once lived, and the hurt that is inherent within the shifting temporality of remembering. ”