Blanch House, 2018, solo show, The Band Presents, Melbourne

To blanch food is to change its texture. It softens. You would never know until you bit into it. This obfuscation of form seeps through Jaccarini's environments as a fog. Like in Charles Dicken's Bleak House - "Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog in their eyes and throats." In Blanch House however, it is a clean fog of perfect imperfections and frozen erosion that suffocates these dead images.