Lauren Davies Projects

My most recent body of photo-based work titled Industry Unraveled draws attention to both current practices of online commerce and the history of manufacturing in the Rust Belt. The work intertwines images that represent regional history, architecture and location with processes derived from the affordable immediacy of Walmart and web-based commerce.

The photographs that I’ve taken in Northeast Ohio and other Rust Belt locations, are uploaded to Walmart’s website and processed into digitally woven versions of my images. I selectively pull threads from the woven image combined with over-dying, bleaching and manual collage using a sewing machine. The combination of these hand-worked processes creates a visual impression that the image is dematerializing, fading away, and unraveling into a pile of disconnected threads cascading towards the floor.

Ark, 2019

Deconstructed woven photograph with collaged fabrics, 58”x60”

Deconstructed woven photograph, bleached and dyed.

74” x 51”

Deconstructed woven photographs assembled and sewn into a quilt, on wooden hanging rod.

92” x 54”

Black and Blue, 2020

Deconstructed, collaged and dyed woven photograph.

34” x 46”

Black and Blue (rear), deconstructed woven photograph; Brick by Brick (foreground), woven photographic sculpture

Deconstructed woven photograph, collaged and dyed.

33” x 50”

Deconstructed woven photograph, bleached and dyed.

101" x 52"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

38”x24”

Deconstructed woven photograph.

40” x 24”

Deconstructed woven photograph.

22” x 25”

Deconstructed woven photograph.

20” x 24”

Deconstructed woven photograph, dyed.

98" x 34"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

98" x 107"

Detail of deconstructed woven photograph.

Detail of work, 98" x 107"

Deconstructed woven photograph, bleached and dyed.

94" x 92"

Deconstructed woven photograph, dyed.

98" x 92"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

56" x 32"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

26" x 33"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

72”x48”

Deconstructed woven photograph, bleached and dyed.

28" x 38"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

101" x 56"

Portrait of a Brick, 2017 (left)

Woven photograph, foam rubber, 8" x 4" x 3"

Foundation, 2017 (center/floor)

Woven photograph, foam rubber, 17" x 39" x 19"

Cleveland, 2015 (right)

Deconstructed woven photograph, 101" x 56"

Sculpture made from woven photograph, foam rubber, 8" x 4" x 3"

Sculpture made from woven photograph, foam rubber, 17" x 39" x 19"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

64" x 32"

Deconstructed woven photograph, dyed.

28” x 34”

Deconstructed woven photograph.

64" x 40"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

14" x 16"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

22" x 16"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

72" x 56"

Sculpture installation made from woven photograph, foam rubber, hand sewn, installation dimensions variable.