COVID Quarantine envelopes me with the domestic. For a stay-at-home mother of three young children, all the boundaries between individual roles I play break down and the space encompasses me. Cut irregular edges bring to mind “peeking through” like tears in my kids’ worn clothes, patched so we can reuse them or perforated pages in their homeschool workbooks…the small details that COVID exposes.
This piece was made during COVID quarantine using readily available materials and processes, including three elements: 1) scanned hand drawn sketch, 2) printed patterns (hand-drawn, painted with gouache, and scanned for digital pattern), and 3) printed sketch that is cut with deliberate irregularity.
Agnes HARDIE
COMBINED CABINET, COMMODE, WARD ROBE, AND INVALID CHAIR
No. 414,309, Patented Noy 5, 1889.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US414309
Eliza. M. MOSHER
CHAIR
No. 1,147,965, Patented July 27, 1915.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1147965A/en?oq=US1147965
Belauh Louise HENRY
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US3159264A/en?oq=US3159264
Belauh Louise HENRY
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No 3,018,033 Filed Feb. 20, 1959 Patented Jan. 23, 1962
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3018033A/en?oq=US3018033
Belauh Louise HENRY
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US2744653A/en?oq=US2744653
Belauh Louise HENRY
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No 2,259,467 Filed Feb. 27, 1940 Patented Oct. 21, 1941.
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Belauh Louise HENRY
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US2302318A/en?oq=US2302318
Mararet E. Knight
Bag Machine 1871
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US391782A/en?oq=US391782
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Nell E GARDINER
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Nell Albert
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Margaret A. WILCOX
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Belauh Louise HENRY 2,037,901
DOUBLE CHAIN STITCH SEWING MACHINE
No 2,037,901 Filed Oct. 18, 1934 April 21, 1936.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2037901A/en?oq=US2037901
Belauh Louise HENRY
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No 1,889,657 Filed Dec. 3, 1928 Nov. 29, 1932.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1889657A/en?oq=US1889657
Amalie SCHAFFER
COMBINED WINDOW CLEANER AND FIRE ESCAPE,
No. 400,12. Patented Mar. 26, 1889.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US400121A/en?oq=US400121
Sarah Buckius 