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Rejin Leys
Haitian-American mixed media artist based in New York
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“With These Hands (C-clamp),” recycled paper pulp with onion skins, 11x19x1", 2022
"With These Hands" is a series of cast paper sculptures of my late father's tools. It is a tribute to him and to all caregivers, who bring a full range of skills to their work either professionally or within their families and communities. The sculptures suggest stewardship and environmental responsibility through care and repair of the things we own. Making (somewhat) fragile relief sculptures of very durable tools, the project doesn't immortalize objects like stone or bronze sculptures would, yet it renders them and the people who use them visible in a new way, and facilitates a dialogue about the kinds of work that society relies on but may not value enough.
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“With These Hands (Three clamps),” recycled paper pulp with onion skins, 9x17x1", 2022
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“With These Hands (Saw handle and hardware),” recycled paper pulp, 9x14x1", 2022
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“With These Hands (Two wrenches),” recycled paper pulp with onion skins, 9x15x1", 2022
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“With These Hands (Three tools),” recycled paper pulp with onion skins, 9x16x1", 2022
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“With These Hands (Seven nails),” recycled paper pulp with onion skins, 9x17.5x.5", 2022
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“With These Hands (Secatur, scissors, tweezer),” recycled paper pulp with onion skins, 18x19x1", 2022
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“With These Hands (Pliers, hardware, wrench),” recycled paper pulp with onion skins, 10.5x15x1", 2022
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“With These Hands (Spatula and wooden spoon),” recycled paper pulp with onion skins, 8x17.5x1", 2022
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“With These Hands (C-clamp and wrench),” recycled paper pulp, 16x21x1", 2022
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"With These Hands (Four tools)," recycled paper pulp with onion skins, 18x19x1", 2022
This project was exhibited at Flushing Town Hall, NYC, as part of "Care/Repair: Mending the Circle," a project of the Southeast Queens Artist Alliance from June 1 - 29, 2022.
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"East River Chronicle," cast paper with shredded poems, 4x6' 2021 (Installation view at Works on Water House, Governor's Island, NY)
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“East River Chronicle” explores our relationship with our waterways over the history of the city. By choosing from a menu of six texts (five poems and one essay), PulpMobile participants at the East River at Hunter's Point South were able to see the city the way 6 writers did from the 19th through the 21st centuries, and reflect on the way the city may have changed over that time. Leftover paper pulp and shredded poems were cast into these artifacts of the project.
This project was part of Works on Water's 2021 "Tending the Edge" festival of events which drew attention to the NYC waterways and our relationship to them.
#Rejin Leys#Works on Water#Tending the Edge#water art#papermaking#handmade paper#public art#social practice
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“Lost Continents (Voyage),” monoprint and acrylic, 15x22″, 2019
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"Lost Continent Dreambook," acrylic, gouache, colored pencil, and ink on wood panel, 12x12" 2020
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"Dreambook 7 & 8," acrylic, gouache, and ink on wood panel, each 12x12" 2020
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“Next Time on Earth,” pencil, acrylic, gouache and collage on handmade paper, 41x43” 2019
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