Jackie Duvall-Smith

There Goes the Neighborhood​

is a rug that I knit out of various fabrics that represent the cultures in my neighborhood.

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Added to the top of the rug are strips of fabric that spell "There Goes the Neighborhood" in the represented languages.

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My interest in this piece was to challenge the idea of a neighborhood that has been traditionally viewed as "devalued" when other cultures move in. in fact,

 

I am interested in the idea of turning that concept on it's head by questioning how gentrification strips a neighborhood of it's cultural vibrancy. and thus devaluates it.

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