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fabric, marker, acrylic, magazine cutouts, Blow POP candy wrapper, charcoal, ink with text, “You want it”

Craving and Consumption.

When I was two, before I had really learned to swim, I loved jupming off of the diving board. There was no hesitation, no fear, only excitement. Of course my mom was there to catch me, but I dove in with abandon! Curiosity, imagination, adventure, and play, are all the elements of my childhood that I savor and strive to hold on to as a mature adult. Stubbornness, timidity, worry, and impatience are the characteristics of my childhood that I would like to grow out of. This body of work is a collective expression of the transition from ignorance to knowledge, and from inexperience to understandingn that I went through at the end of my college career. I had to choose how to live the rest of my life and I decided not to sit at the edge of the pool and dip my toes, but to take a running start and dive straight in!

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candy, crown, dark, fabric, flower, ink, layers, skeleton, skull, pills, drugs, bones, patterns, pattern, falling

Jaelah was born in Wisconsin, the land of cows, cheese, and beer. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Missouri State University. She then served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa from 2007-2010. Upon her return, she followed her affinity for the heat and moved to Austin, TX where she currently resides, makes art, and staves off the itch of moving abroad again.

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