Sound-Collecting Suit and Backpack 2013
When I moved to Hamtramck I felt like I was in a foreign city In order to contextualize and understand the place I made...
Artist Statement
When I moved to Hamtramck I felt like I was in a foreign city. In order to contextualize and understand the place, I made myself a Sound-Collecting Suit. I immersed myself in the project of collecting sounds and voices of the neighborhood. The suit acts as a catalyst to engage people on the street, while giving me a uniform to do my job as an artist.
Jessica Frelinghuysen received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her Master of Architecture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She sculpts objects to help negotiate social anxieties and continually seeks to reconcile the separation between the individual and society. When encountering a new place, she will usually spend a long time observing, sketching and trying to figure how she fits into a particular environment. She is not afraid of the absurd; in fact, she appreciates the importance of humor as a vehicle. Currently living in Detroit, Jessica is a lecturer at Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.