Last summer, The New Yorker published an article about Jacqui Kenny, The Agoraphobic Traveler, who photographed the world through screenshots of Google Street View. She worked from the comfort of her own desk, when traveling abroad might otherwise have spun her into intensive therapy. Her work embodies a type of paradox, landscapes both empty and simultaneously full, the same one might find in a Wes Anderson film, but even more distilled to essential emotional and aesthetic components. It pairs with her own somewhat paradoxical creative process, simultaneously at home and out in the world.
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There have always been women creatives, who like the Japanese art and philosophy of Kintsugi, fill the cracks and seemingly broken places of the globe and their souls with real and metaphorical gold, as Kenny has accomplished with her unique creations/curations of the world, filling in where her agoraphobia might have left cracks. Emily Dickinson, Lady Gaga, and Georgia O’Keeffe come to mind as just some giants of art who are said to have all grappled with critical mental or emotional health issues, women who have filled the breaks and cracks with golden poetry, music and paint. And now more and more, creative women telescope out from nontraditional spaces. Now more then ever before, because so many who may first have just aimed for a room of one’s own, now have a device with a connection.
