mood V
The fifth installment in our new series called, a mood, is with artist Jessie Weitzel Le Grand.
Jessie Weitzel Le Grand’s work presents objects from imagined alternate realities connected to our own. Jessie holds a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, an MAT from Marylhurst University and has exhibited work recently at Outback Arthouse (Los Angeles), Stephanie Chefas Projects (Portland, OR), Disjecta (Portland, OR) and Lazy Oaf’s “Take a Break” in London, England. Jessie is a co-founder of Carnation Contemporary and teaches second grade in Portland, OR with a focus on equity and arts integration.
She is currently thinking about inner-worlds, unsolved mysteries, and conscious plants. And playing video games.
To see more of Jessie’s work please visit her website or follow her on Instagram @_ny_by.
“It may well be prejudice, to restrict the psyche to being “inside the body.” In so far as the psyche has a non-spatial aspect, there may be a psyche ‘outside-the-body,’ a region so utterly different from ‘my’ psychic sphere that one has to get out of oneself...to get there.”
- Carl Jung, Moods (1955-56)
Top left to bottom right: (1) Aurel Schmidt Drug Voodoo (Pepto Cowboy), 2019; (2) Bunny Sea Slug, Jorunna parva, Photo by: D.Hatanea; (3) Ubik, by Philip K. Dick; (4) Genesis Belanger, Hostess, 2019; (5) David Altmejd, Untitled, 2012; (6) My Animal Crossing Character Standing on a Waterfall, Crying in the Rain. Yesterday; (7) Orchid Mantis Babies, Insect Haus (8) Joakim Ojanen, Finish Touches on New Sculptures, 2018.