All images © Jane Waggoner Deschner
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resilience (Homer, harm done)
2011
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton
and Sulky metallic threads
17.25 x 11.5 inches
Once harm has been done,
even a fool understands it.
—Homer
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resilience (Horne.I'm me)
2011
found photos, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton
Gutermann rayon and Sulky metallic threads
17.25 x 23 inches
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resilience (Eliot, be)
2011
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton
and Sulky metallic threads
17.25 x 11.5 inches
It’s never to late to be what you might have been.
—George Eliot
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resilience (Hugo, bird)
2011
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton
and Sulky metallic threads
17.25 x 11.5 inches
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her,
still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
—Victor Hugo
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from the resilience series (Booth, Rule One)
2011
found photograph, cotton and rayon threads
17.225 x 11.5 inches
Rule One of all rules:
No one ever knows how much another hurts.
—Philip Booth
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back detail of from the resilience series (Booth, Rule One)
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from the maxim series (Duchamp, no problem)
2010
found photograph, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
10 x 7.875 inches
There is no solution for there is no problem.
—Marcel Duchamp
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from the maxim series (row boat, Betty's boys)
2009
studio photos, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
20.25 x 22.375 inches
destroyed
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from the symbol series (8th graders, skulls)
2011
found photographs, rayon thread
9.75 x 7 inches
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from the maxim series (Vonnegut, no why)
2010
found photograph, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
9.875 x 8 inches
We are all trapped in the amber of the moment.
There is no why.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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from the maxim series (Sting, no matter))
in collaboration with Robert E. Jackson
2011
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
9.375 x 7.25 inches
Be yourself, no matter what they say.
—Sting
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from the maxim series (Proust, eyes)
2011
studio portraits, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
12 x 17.25 inches
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
—Marcel Proust
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from the maxim series (Thoreau, Stewart & Granger)
2011
found movie photos, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
10.125 x 14 inches
Could a greater miracle take place than for us
to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
—Henry David Thoreau
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from the maxim series (Twain, Carradine)
2011
found movie photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton & Sulky metallic threads
10 x 8 inches
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
—Mark Twain
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from the maxim series (Thales, self)
2009
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
6.875 x 5 inches
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from the garment series (family suit)
2009
vintage snapshots, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
46 x 52.5 x 3 inches
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from the garment series (t-shirt, t-shirt)
2009
snapshots, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread
27.5 x 31.25 x 2 inches
destroyed
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from the garment series (mothers&sons)
2009
snapshots, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread 19.875 x 25.75 x 2 inches
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from the garment series (little boy, dragon)
snapshots of James "Jimmy" Schelfhout
2011
found photographs, cotton, rayon and metallic threads
22.625 x 18.75 x 1.75 inches
A dragon lives forever but not so little boys.
—Peter Yarrow, “Puff the Magic Dragon”
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from the maxim series (Huxley, debutants)
2010
found photo, DMC Mouliné 100% cotton thread & 100% rayon thread
8 x 9.875 inches