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Juliet Jacobson’s drawings take as their subject items so quotidian they would typically not merit
more than a passing glance—a notched cutting board, a broken-in work glove, the twisted cord of
a phone charger: humble, common objects that many people own or come into contact with during
their daily routine. These items are marked by the suggestion of use: fingerprints haunt the grimy
surface of a computer screen; the rumpled sheets of an unmade bed point to the movements of unseen
figures. Such materials of everyday life allude to universal experiences, but only through the physical
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