My Grandfather's Hands
Jayne pays homage to her ancestors in the granite industry, many who died young from silicosis. My Grandfather's Hands uses spoken word, photographs, film and aerial dance to create a mixed media performance. Ernesto Bernasconi (Jayne's great-grandfather) sculpted Ceres, a 30 foot tall Goddess of Agriculture and Fertility in the early 1900's and today this statue stands with 5 others on the facade of Union Station in Washington, D.C. Jayne's family monument is captured in this piece as well as other granite monuments from the Hope Cemetary in Barre, VT, as well as old and current images of The Rock Of Ages granite quarries including Jayne flying on a crane over the quarries.