19.5″x19.5″; hand-cut collage on archival paper; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Jaclyn McCabe: Unspoken Fragments
at Burnt Canoe Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
20-27 September 2025
Exploring grief and longing through hand-cut collage, using unexpected juxtapositions, negative space, and fragments of song lyrics—echoes of memory and the things left unsaid.
Love came into my life like a tornado. It carried me so high I felt as if I were touching the sun, but like Icarus, the ascent—magnificent, blazing, impossible to resist—was fleeting, and the fall left me in an emotional fog that threatened to consume me.
This collection is my attempt to make sense of the wreckage—born from the raw vulnerability of love, the paralyzing despair of heartbreak, and the bittersweetness of grief.
19.5″x19.5″; hand-cut collage on archival paper; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
The objects I select and hand-cut—from art books, independent fashion magazines, scientific journals, and my own photography—often carry symbolic weight, sometimes as private references, sometimes as intuitive flashes that emerge in the act of making.
Song lyrics weave through the pieces as emotional narrators, giving voice to feelings I could not speak aloud. Together, these elements create a rhythm between image and text–a heartbeat that carries the tension, longing, and release of intimacy and grief.
In response to M. Ward’s question in “Chinese Translation”—“What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart?”—I gather them, arrange them, and give them form, letting the fragments become something whole.
(text adapted from material provided by the artist)
INFORMATION
Burnt Canoe Studio
4820 Banks Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 USA
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Saturday, 20 September 2025, 7-10PM
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