Jaime Capps
Fractures Stain the Body (2022)
Media: kozo, hemp thread
Statement: Fractures Stain the Body. Works representative of emotional trauma and the marks it leaves on the body. Visible and invisible which is dependent on so many things: time, love, healing and light, or the absence of.
Persistent (2022)
Media: cotton, abaca
Statement: Persistent. Using a stencil cut out from a photo of my son, I use color and over beaten fiber in four pulp paintings to represent different stages of and shifts in his emotional wellness while living with depression.
Heir Apparent (2022)
Media: handmade paper, pulp painting, image transfers, polymer and screen prints
Statement: Through the use of childhood mementos, stencils, pulp paints and different types of printing, this set of artist books shows the journey of a mothers love for her son.
Jamie Capps is a multimedia artist and papermaker. She earned her BA in Studio Art from Mount Holyoke University as a Francis Perkins Scholar and is an MFA Candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, where she was a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship.
She has assisted Nicholas Cladis at the Oakdale Paper Research Facility in various papermaking projects and a winter workshop with students from the Rhode Island School of Design. Most recently she was a research assistant in the Summer 2022 study abroad program, Artists & Artisans in a Traditional Japanese Papermaking Village.
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