Jessey Jansen
Austin, TX
Portraying whispering moments to challenging paradigms of social mobility through mixed media and collaborative art.
MessageSocial mobility is dependent upon other resources than just financial. The child, or symbol for education, is placed in the center of the united family which represents the importance of education, significant relationships and role models. All the silhouette figures are moving in the same direction, but independently positioned, to suggest perseverance and decision making. The graph bars are made into the steps suggesting a goal of upward social mobility. The city graphic sits on the same horizon line as the individuals, representing the importance of resource accessibility.
Collection: MyPOP (My Print on Poverty) investigates topics of social mobility and reveals the inherent contradictions between the idealized steps to prosperity and the often harsh reality of climbing the soci-economic ladder with limited resources. Going beyond merely exposing the discrepancy between resources and opportunity, the work alludes to the sense of community that families are able to create within grinding conditions of material hardship. By illustrating a labyrinth of social and political structures, the insightful series is a shrill outcry against the stereotypes of the poor and a sobering real-life perspective of moving out of the dysfunctional cycles.
Medium: The paintings are coated with a malleable texture of wax, representing changing circumstances and preservation. The use of distressed collage is integrated for the purpose of storytelling, cross cultural symbolism and to represents obstacles, barriers and erosion of resources.
- Created: 2007
- Reproductions: Available
- Collections: MyPOP
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For me, creating has always been a companion, allowing me to make sense of seemingly uncontrolled situations through controlled mediums.
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