Another Jacquard project. I was weaving crime photos taken from police archives -- mainly the NYPD archives. All the photos are from the early 1910s. Many of the victims are nameless; in the case of the NYPD archives the photos were stashed in a file under a staircase. I think it was in the '80s when they went through their archives and literally threw a number of these photos away (into the river, I believe). A stash of them survived. This is my sort of tribute, memento mori to them. I did a lot of embroidering and mending on the pieces when I took them off the loom. They're in shadow boxes
The second weaving was based on this photo
This was the photo used for the first weaving
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