Piece description from the artist
Jae Schalekamp creates patterns that are evolved from coincidence and intension. Pattern is any regularly repeated visual arrangement, and it also is a particular way in which something is done, is organized, or happens, like it occurs in our daily routines or behaviors. This group of geometric work explores the process of creating the visual patterns in a way our lives’ patterns evolve.
The work is initiated with a simple pattern that symbolizes yin and yang, and a circle. The pattern is cut and randomly mixed, which employs coincidence, then rearranged in a particular way to create a secondary pattern, which is the intentional response to that coincidence. The pieces are sewn together in gold thread to present textures and temporality. The process is somewhat similar to creating an abstract painting with conceptual content, portraying life’s intentions and accidents, and chances and rules, metaphorical to our universal lives’ patterns.
When Jaeyoon Schalekamp came back to painting as a full-time artist, after 15 years of designing textiles, she turned to nature for inspiration. She has experimented with different subject matters and styles. The series “Poised in Nature” seems to convey her expression in the most honest way. By recognizing different shapes and sizes of plants, mingled and tangled, and still maintaining their own growing directions toward light, she finds herself trying to identify simple truth and wisdom in the phenomenal cycle of nature
The nature-inspired paintings are more in the manner of a portrait, rather than a landscape. What draws her attention in nature is an individual subject with its immediate surroundings that suggest a unique story, a trace of time and struggle. While Jae’s painting is representational, she finds the motives both from real life and imagination. They are either simply depicted as a state of being or situated as a metaphor, as a means of self-reflected expression. Her aspiration is to bring out the mood and the sentiment that touches a viewer’s emotion. The textures and subtle monotone palette seems to be influenced by her flair in designing textiles and also her pursuit of finding serenity and simplicity.
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