Jacky’s final artwork, Traces of Bunhill, is installed on buildings across Bunhill, creating enamelled windows into Bunhill’s past. Her collage-inspired process is clearly expressed in these pieces, with precisely extracted maps of buildings and blocks punching straight through to clipped sections of text or layers of other, older maps and building plans. These historic documents are clearly archival but displaced—centuries-old documents overlap and peek through modern materials, flattening time and bringing nineteenth century craftsmen, seventeenth century fields, and modern viewer into the same plane of existence. Her work suggests a continuum, reminding viewers that this place once belonged to someone else, that other feet walked these streets, and that we are part of a chain of overlapping but distinct moments in time.
Traces of Bunhill is an ode to the Bunhill’s generations of craftsmen and labourers, and is infused with Jacky’s respect for the artisans she researched throughout her residency. Many of the buildings that now frame these panels directly relate to the content and tell the story of the people who lived and worked in Bunhill.
Text by Sarah Guzman
