Jennifer Levine

I am a writer and an artist, human in my quest for identity and definition. Though every journey is a well worn path and every story, cliched, I still believe we can create our own footprints.

Intrinsically, the human experience revolves around relation… relation with our selves, relation with others, relation with the very ground on which we stand. These relationships are based upon perimeters and boundaries — where one element stops, another begins. The root of language is based off these delineations which make it limited and flat. I predicate this truth by acknowledging that language lives and vernacular breathes; it also dies. How ironic is it that we lose our words while trying to recount our feelings, the most universal attribute of the human condition? Life is not experienced in one dimensional tripes of happy, sad, angry, et cetera. The spirit, which never holds tactile form, cannot be described in concrete terms. This paradigm is fallacy.

My work is about breaking those defined structures and capturing the true, ineffable quality that is human experience. My goal is to probe and better articulate each hue, each value, each subtle shade of nuance in expression. I realize that on some level this precept is antithetical yet it is the venture I claim. I hope people discover a little of themselves in my process of exploration, walk beside me and let's be human, together.