Stories of the Real and Unreal Worlds
FEATURED stop motion animation
ALICE IN DYSTOPIA
Elegy for Tesla
Little red riding Hood as a crime SCENE
SCHuyKILL Environmental CENTER
T.S ELLIOTS FOUR QUARTETS
Installations
popular folktales, history, and literature are reimagined through a contemporary lens and made into multi-sensory environments.
Sculptures
Body fragments, vegetative processes, and microscopic life fuse, mutate, and morph, and the resulting objects invite recognition, while remaining mutable, suggestive, and indeterminate.
Prints and Drawings
VIDEO/STOP MOTION
videos of “Alice in Dystopia”, “Elegy for Tesla”, T.S. Elliot’s Four Quartets”, “Stories of the Real and Unreal Worlds” and more
MEET THE ARTIST
Jeanne Jaffe
Inspired by an interest in anthropology, mythology, and psychology, my work explores how identity is forged from early, pre-verbal bodily experience through the later influences of language and culture. This is undertaken by investigating the use of metaphor and reexamining our cultural myths and stories.