Jenny Rideout

Scrapatacularly Analog Pocket Technology (AKA Sew On Pockets). 

 

And, also, tiny textile rehoming project (AKA pins and necklaces)

 

Jenny Rideout works with cloth that has already lived a life 

quilts worn thin 

fragments saved for no clear reason

scraps that refuse to be thrown away

 

from these remnants she stitches pockets brooches small attachments

designed to fasten themselves 

to bodies in motion

 

these are not just pockets

they are carriers 

for keys and hands and nervous systems

for luck

for memory

for the small necessary things 

that want to stay close

 

sewn onto pants skirts dresses bags

they become mobile sanctuaries

places where usefulness 

and beauty quietly conspire

 

the smallest pieces gather themselves

into brooches and necklaces

bright protective charms

with a low humming intelligence

dragon adjacent

heat without flame made from what survived

 

 

 

 

 

 

this work practices a soft alchemy

repair as devotion 

reuse as spell 

work ornament as companionship

nothing here is finished until it is worn 

nothing here is inert

born from remnants and care

these works hold a quiet fire

meant to be carried close.

 

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