In a second phase, Jan documents and acquaints himself with this scavenged material by creating realistic drawings and life-sized portraits of individual textile items. Deploying drawing as an artistic rite of passage, he seeks to give these otherwise discarded and overlooked items the attention they typically lack by meticulously drawing their every fiber and pattern. In his work, this process is vital not only as the production of individual art works that can stand in isolation and be exhibited, but also as a form of social commentary and intervention on the processes by which one person’s discarded ‘gift’ can become another’s focus of attention or ‘receptivity‘