jane deschner waggoner with Lenscratch

We love seeing what our midwest nice artists are up to! We’re excited to share that Jane Waggoner Deschner’s work was featured on LENSCRATCH in an interview with Aline Smithson, juror of art as storytelling ✨ Jane was featured in our Art as Storytelling, a fervent and necessary arrangement, and the upcoming nice;03 exhibitions.

jane says about memoji mori:

I’ve spent many years “making friends with death” because I learned at a young age that it can happen any time to any one. In my “memoji mori series” I hand-embroider skeleton hands into vernacular photos. Their gestures are familiar because they are based on hand emojis. I create a juxtaposition of a commonplace photo with an expressive hand gesture, encouraging the viewer to decipher possible meanings. Dia de los Muertos, the vibrant celebration of both life and death with its most ubiquitous symbol, the skeleton, has inspired and consoled me for many years.