JES SCHROM challenges us to hold opposing responses in tension as her work vacillates between sweet and disturbing, catharsis and regret. Beyond the nostalgia and dark humor, Reconstructive Memory cautions that every action entails consequence. After documenting the destruction of stuffed animals in an action intended to play on the concept of “loving something to death.” Schrom was haunted by the remnants left in her wake. As she set about stitching the figures back together and carefully documenting the damages, she narrates a story repeated throughout history; the story of destroying something without a realistic notion of consequence, regretting it, and then attempting to reconstruct what is lost.
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