Lauren Davies Projects

My recent body of photo-based work titled Industry Unraveled draws attention to both current practices of online commerce and the history of manufacturing in the Rust Belt. The work intertwines images that represent regional history, architecture and location with processes derived from the affordable immediacy of Walmart and web-based commerce.

The photographs that I’ve taken in Northeast Ohio and other Rust Belt locations, are uploaded to various online websites and processed into digitally woven versions of my images. I selectively pull threads from the woven image combined with over-dying, bleaching and manual collage using a sewing machine. The combination of these hand-worked processes creates a visual impression that the image is dematerializing, fading away, and unraveling into a pile of disconnected threads cascading towards the floor.

Conversion, 2025

Deconstructed woven photograph, collaged and hand-dyed

Deconstructed woven photograph, bleached and dyed.

74” x 51”

Black and Blue, 2020

Deconstructed, collaged and dyed woven photograph.

34” x 46”

Deconstructed woven photograph, collaged and dyed.

33” x 50”

Youngstown 5, 2017 (left), Youngstown 4, 2018 (right) and Brick by Brick, 2017 (foreground)

Deconstructed woven photographs and photographic objects

Deconstructed woven photograph.

56" x 32"

Deconstructed woven photograph, dyed.

28” x 34”

Brick by Brick, 2017

Photographic textile sculpture installation

Foundation, 2017

Woven photographic sculpture, 17’x39”x19”

Deconstructed woven photograph, dyed.

98" x 92"

Deconstructed woven photograph, bleached and dyed.

94" x 92"

Deconstructed woven photograph, bleached and dyed.

101" x 52"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

64" x 32"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

38”x24”

Deconstructed woven photograph.

40” x 24”

Deconstructed woven photograph.

22” x 25”

Deconstructed woven photograph.

98" x 107"

Detail of deconstructed woven photograph.

Detail of work, 98" x 107"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

26" x 33"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

72" x 56"

Deconstructed woven photograph, bleached and dyed.

28" x 38"

Deconstructed woven photograph.

101" x 56"