Self Portrait as a Stack of Books, Jess Wheelock, digital print, 2009
Jess Wheelock, Multimedia Content Producer extraordinaire in the Communication & Public Affairs Office at Wellesley, is going to be part of the Brandt Gallery’s Brandt 21 exhibit in Cleveland next month. Here’s how the Brandt describes her work:
When Jess was young, she thought that she didn’t have enough problems to be an artist. Now she realizes that she has all sorts of problems. Maybe it’s a bad idea to say that she has “problems” because that is sort of a vague and loaded word. I mean, when a person says “problems” maybe you imagine something really big and awful. But sometimes little problems are big problems, if you know what I mean. And anyways, not all problems are bad. Well, problems are bad, but they’re also occasions for opportunity. Or that’s what people like to say when its time to make the best out of a situation.
Maybe this is getting confusing. Let’s try this again. Jess is interested in making fun out of problems – making fun with failure and calamity.
She has done some fantastic and whimsical work for Wellesley. My favorite is this video she did inspired by Francis Alys’s piece Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing
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