Aggregate

bit
by bit
accumulated and bound
by relationship and the
inability to resist their affinity

  

a
mutable notion
planted in earnest,
revealed whole by course
of the innumerable and mountainous

form - history + accumulation

Form is the accumulation of time and material. Common objects emerge from the simplest and most overlooked materials that references among the most common instances of nature and anatomy. Years of collected newspapers, empty egg cartons,ladies handkerchiefs and cast-off rubber inner tubes, all bound to be trash or at the very least overlooked, are intrinsic in the development of a new form that simultaneously leverages and reinvents previous histories. The material itself is a platform – considering a narrative that has already existed and one that it is transformed into. Emotional connections are made from what is already known. Layered quantities of exhausted bicycle inner tubes are transformed into a dead baby elephant; the New York Times grows into a tree stump and empty egg cartons birth dozens of women's pelvises. It is a common commentary that the novelty of form, which leads you to believe that it will endure, only changes.

Jacobi earned her MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Recent exhibitions include: "Collective Bargaining" at Packer Schopf Gallery; "Danse Macabre" at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative; "Gleaners, Hawkers and Reapers" at Packer Schopf Gallery; Top Ten Finalist and 3Arts Award Recipient, "Art Loop Open" Chicago; "Her Tongue: corporal and textual examination" at the Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; "This is My Body: work in progress" at MN Gallery, Chicago; "All That Remains" at Northbranch Gallery; "The Artists Project" at Artropolis, Chicago.