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Rebecca Reeve from series MARJORY’S WORLD

Marjory’s World is a series made during my AIRIE residency in the Everglades in December 2012. 
It draws inspiration from a practice in late 1800s Holland, whereby during the home wake of a deceased person, it was customary to cover all the mirrors, landscape paintings and portraits with cloths. It was believed this would make it easier for the soul to leave the body and subdue any temptations to stay in this world. The ritual seemed, by extension, to be a confirmation of the deeply moving experience that one often feels in the natural environment, and thus provided me a literal and contextual frame within which to shoot the Everglades. The curtains, all purchased from Goodwill and Salvation Army stores in south Florida, represent a “social fabric” with a history already attached to them. In our increasingly urban existence that ever distances us from the wilderness experience, the drapes serve as visual connectors to the familiar.

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Rebecca Reeve

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