Jackie Mulder
Holland
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Jackie Mulder
In Jackie Mulder’s work, memory is not static—it is stitched, unraveled, melted, and reshaped. Her multimedia tableaux vibrate with a quiet tension between vulnerability and resilience. Photographic fragments are wrapped in transparent layers of fabric, wax, and thread, suggesting that what we see is always partial, filtered through texture and time.
Mulder’s background in fashion and graphic design informs her precision and material sensitivity, but her work transcends aesthetic control. Each piece is a slow, transformative act—born from intuition, anchored in the body, and open to interpretation. Botanical forms, domestic textures, and symbolic objects populate her compositions like residues of past thoughts or unspoken histories.
Her visual language proposes healing as a process of layering, undoing, and relayering. The works resist full exposure: like memory itself, they remain incomplete and in motion.
Vanessa Rusci,
curator of the magazine
Project
Thought Trails is an ongoing project in which I push the boundaries of photography through layered material experimentation. I begin by combining multiple photographs, then engage in labor-intensive processes: deconstructing, reconstructing, stitching, drawing, and embedding my images into textiles. Threads and pen strokes serve as metaphors for thought—connecting, separating, wandering.
There’s no fixed image in my mind when I begin. I work slowly, intuitively, letting materials and memories guide me. The result is a series of works that are tactile, atmospheric, and open—suggesting rather than showing, and always in flux.
Artist statement
My work explores the connection between memory, body, and material. I use photography as a base and allow drawing, thread, and wax to guide me into unknown territories. Nothing is predetermined; I let my hands and intuition lead the way. I come from a background of silence—of repression—and art became my way to speak. Each layer I create is a way to revisit, to transform. My goal is not to tell a story, but to allow space for sensation, for slowness, for change.