Since antiquity, fashion and art have served as reciprocal musings, equipping creative artists in both fields with revived modes of viewing, interpreting, and becoming inspired. Throughout my twenty year career as an Artist, IÕve found saliency in locating unexplored and possibly overlooked visual parallels in the global discursive mediums of sculpture, painted works, illustration, design, architecture, furniture and fashion. Examples of these visual parallels may be cited in my published work and press.

I understand, in the spirit of Derridean deconstruction, that the play on meaning is never fixed and further, that no two persons view a work of art in exactly the same way. This type of ambigraphic ambiguity could likely extend formerly unseen perspective to viewers and purveyors of these fields all across the globe.

I examine the interplay of classic and contemporary works of art with the artisanship of fashion designers and couturers worldwide. This exploration of appropriated images, serves as means to demonstrate that through the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated schemes of structure, color, pattern, geometric shape, texture, and cultural context that art in the form of sculpture, painted works, illustration, design, architecture, furniture, fashion, and thus the world and its inhabitants are in many ways connected.

The commonalities evident in the selected couplings will awaken the perception of the viewer, triggering a type of critical analysis that will allow them to see the pairs, alone and in relation to one another, as if for the first time. My work, which aims to embody the over-arching themes of connection and surprise, marks the arrival of a new genre in visual arts; a new statement that (according to a review of my work by Design Blog Netherlands), Òconfirms an obvious cross fertilization between the disciplines of art and fashionÓ, while simultaneously expanding a new vision in the arts.

This is about common threads and a unified global connection. I want to sharpen the world. I want to insight shock and awe the minds of viewers, encouraging them to detect, elucidate, and expound the similarities that exist among the seemingly unrelated images placed before them. I want people from opposite ends of the world to acknowledge and celebrate the sameness and difference that exist in our interpretations of aesthetic ideals in fashion, art, and the formerly mentioned fields.

It is my ultimate hope, that my art will shape and inspire the way people conceptualize our playground to link connection and spawn creativity based on an entirely new vision.

Humbly,
Nancy Jimenez