JENN​IFER LYNNE ROBERTS
WRITER ARTIST
I'm always searching for balance, bringing opposites to a new starting point where they are meaningful to each other rather than unwanted.
The transitory nature of balance I'd experienced for most of my life made me keenly aware of the tension created between seemingly incompatible ideas trying to dominate space at the expense of the other: nature and human; body and mind; creation and destruction.
It's the investigation on how we can achieve equilibrium between oppositions that fascinates me. I want us to witness the beauty that comes in the textures of decay, see the dichotomy and harmony of nature and human, science and superstition… These are only a few contradictions I want to investigate.
I use visual arts as a form of exploration and storytelling to make sense of these concepts as a way to make sense of my world and how to move through it, how to pull the edges of each end together and find the center.
​One of the things that baffles me … is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls.
― Carrie Fisher
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
― Anais Nin
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
― Leo Tolstoy
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
― John Muir
In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality..
― Virginia Woolf
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