![no offense but we’re obsessed with november featured artist @jakioeoeo jaki romine 🌷💐
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wide shot landscape portrait of jaklin romine in her studio. photo taken by ashaka matthews.
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image description: jaklin has brown skin, and wears a black tank top and a black skirt while sitting in her wheel chair. she is surrounded by her pastel materials of foam and draped fabrics, as well as the flowers she sources from downtown los angeles.]()
no offense but we’re obsessed with november featured artist @jakioeoeo jaki romine 🌷💐 . wide shot landscape portrait of jaklin romine in her studio. photo taken by ashaka matthews. . image description: jaklin has brown skin, and wears a black tank top and a black skirt while sitting in her wheel chair. she is surrounded by her pastel materials of foam and draped fabrics, as well as the flowers she sources from downtown los angeles. ![November featured artist Jaklin Romine @jakioeoeo // I AM HERE is a series of images I started and finished working on in 2017 and 2018. The work was birthed out of frustration with the institutional segregation and discrimination I received while attending @calarts . I purposely didn’t want to make work about my disability because I knew that’s what was expected of me. I never wanted to pigeonhole myself into being labeled only as a disabled artist. When I am also a womxn , queer, latinx (in all its latinidad complication) Mexican, Indigenous, and silently a fourth European. My intersectional identities layer on top of each other kind of like the different layers of fabric that are draped , hidden, and revealed through my early experiments with non photographic printing processes and materials. The first photographic installation was created using digitally printed images on vinyl banners. While thinking about breaking the conventional understanding of photography I tried to also grapple with my disabled bodily experience and it’s fit in society and the art world. The photographs capture me out of my wheelchair laying in bed in red lingerie covered in all of the derogatory terms for somone with a physical disability. I covered my body in temporary tattoos that stated different terms #freak , #lame , #cripple , #disabled , and others. Forcing the viewer to confront the sexualized disabled body with all of its socially constructed oppressive terms. By juxtaposing these labels with my disabled body I’m taking back any power they hold and showing how I am boundless beyond any of these definitions. This was the project that started my transitional printing on poly silk and poly chiffon fabrics. Utilizing any entirely different printing process called digital sublimation. Allowing me access to a different type of materiality and pliability to bend , sag, droop, hang and fold to create new photographic installations. Showing how photography can been expressed in a new and different way that could only be brought to life with the help of other humans. The entire process from start to finish is under my direction but I can do it on my own.]()
November featured artist Jaklin Romine @jakioeoeo // I AM HERE is a series of images I started and finished working on in 2017 and 2018. The work was birthed out of frustration with the institutional segregation and discrimination I received while attending @calarts . I purposely didn’t want to make work about my disability because I knew that’s what was expected of me. I never wanted to pigeonhole myself into being labeled only as a disabled artist. When I am also a womxn , queer, latinx (in all its latinidad complication) Mexican, Indigenous, and silently a fourth European. My intersectional identities layer on top of each other kind of like the different layers of fabric that are draped , hidden, and revealed through my early experiments with non photographic printing processes and materials. The first photographic installation was created using digitally printed images on vinyl banners. While thinking about breaking the conventional understanding of photography I tried to also grapple with my disabled bodily experience and it’s fit in society and the art world. The photographs capture me out of my wheelchair laying in bed in red lingerie covered in all of the derogatory terms for somone with a physical disability. I covered my body in temporary tattoos that stated different terms #freak , #lame , #cripple , #disabled , and others. Forcing the viewer to confront the sexualized disabled body with all of its socially constructed oppressive terms. By juxtaposing these labels with my disabled body I’m taking back any power they hold and showing how I am boundless beyond any of these definitions. This was the project that started my transitional printing on poly silk and poly chiffon fabrics. Utilizing any entirely different printing process called digital sublimation. Allowing me access to a different type of materiality and pliability to bend , sag, droop, hang and fold to create new photographic installations. Showing how photography can been expressed in a new and different way that could only be brought to life with the help of other humans. The entire process from start to finish is under my direction but I can do it on my own. ![NOVEMBER FEATURED ARTIST • Jaklin Romine @jakioeoeo // Why bring me flowers when I’m dead? When you have the time to do it when I was alive! Is my working series about the amor and appreciation that I have for mi Abuela. (My grandma) Along with my disability justice activism I also choose to create photo media installations that take over and encapsulate so much more space than my body could ever imagine. I want the photograph to do so much more than hang in a picture in a frame. So I have created these installations in order to push the medium of photography further into the 3rd,4th and5th dimension. Thank you @psla_ for this amazing opportunity that still keeps giving to me joy and further art endeavors #disabledphotographer #disabledartist #jaklinromine #photoinstallation #installationart]()
NOVEMBER FEATURED ARTIST • Jaklin Romine @jakioeoeo // Why bring me flowers when I’m dead? When you have the time to do it when I was alive! Is my working series about the amor and appreciation that I have for mi Abuela. (My grandma) Along with my disability justice activism I also choose to create photo media installations that take over and encapsulate so much more space than my body could ever imagine. I want the photograph to do so much more than hang in a picture in a frame. So I have created these installations in order to push the medium of photography further into the 3rd,4th and5th dimension. Thank you @psla_ for this amazing opportunity that still keeps giving to me joy and further art endeavors #disabledphotographer #disabledartist #jaklinromine #photoinstallation #installationart ![NOVEMBER FEATURED ARTIST • Jaklin Romine @jakioeoeo // Today continues to be strange and uncertain as the election results still loom in the air. And my morning without the normal care I get sets me off on a weird trajectory for the rest the day. As I am writing this my caregiver has just text me that she’s might not come in tomorrow because her nephew doesn’t have someone to watch him. So I’m currently scrambling wondering how I’m going to find care tomorrow after I just worked on all the image captions for this post. Which was supposed to only be about my project #accessdenied and how the idea started while in grad school #calarts . When I was there I experienced different levels of discrimination and segregation but the bathroom situation was very egregious and that’s what I documented here. Originally these images were going to be used for the lawsuit against them but then they also became part of my art. After going through all of that I continued making the work and it got attention and it got shown and celebrated even though it is combating the art world directly and art spaces directly. The project then morphed during quarantine to the description and last images that I have posted here. Which called for the able-bodies person to go out to the location and by the restrictions of Covid-19, the gallery being closed, could they then understand the same level of exclusion that I experienced while documenting the project. #jaklinromine #luttecollective #disabiltyjustice]()
NOVEMBER FEATURED ARTIST • Jaklin Romine @jakioeoeo // Today continues to be strange and uncertain as the election results still loom in the air. And my morning without the normal care I get sets me off on a weird trajectory for the rest the day. As I am writing this my caregiver has just text me that she’s might not come in tomorrow because her nephew doesn’t have someone to watch him. So I’m currently scrambling wondering how I’m going to find care tomorrow after I just worked on all the image captions for this post. Which was supposed to only be about my project #accessdenied and how the idea started while in grad school #calarts . When I was there I experienced different levels of discrimination and segregation but the bathroom situation was very egregious and that’s what I documented here. Originally these images were going to be used for the lawsuit against them but then they also became part of my art. After going through all of that I continued making the work and it got attention and it got shown and celebrated even though it is combating the art world directly and art spaces directly. The project then morphed during quarantine to the description and last images that I have posted here. Which called for the able-bodies person to go out to the location and by the restrictions of Covid-19, the gallery being closed, could they then understand the same level of exclusion that I experienced while documenting the project. #jaklinromine #luttecollective #disabiltyjustice
