Trendy thought it may be, I have always had a deep love for abandoned spaces. I used to trespass in empty houses on a regular basis, spying on the people who once lived inside, watching them through the telescope of time. I got to know their histories in fragments, in fiction, and in retrospect.
Back in my studio, I digitally merged and manipulated the photographic evidence scavenged from these forgotten homes before breaking them apart and printing them piecemeal on recycled fabric scraps, each with its own forgotten history. I then stitched the pieces together to create compositional wholes before adding my own speculative story in acrylic paint.
Although my love affair with these spaces has never ended, eventually I abandoned this project like the houses themselves in order to turn my attention to more pressing concerns, like the political world. I made my last quilt in 2017.
Jeana Eve Klein 