Jenna Graves
Primarily based upon my self-indulgence and self pity, I use my work to deal with inner demons and anxieties.
I expose my daydreams and fantasies of escape and turn them into a joke, delving into my past in order to transform my memories into music videos and soap operas, the frivolous narratives that surround everyone everyday.
With the aid of tacky, home-made special effects, clumsy amateur dramatics and souped-up technocolour my work is a fluffy neon candyfloss centred about my personal problems. With each bite the viewer takes, my fears are uncovered.
Photography
“Occurrences such as this are most common for people who find they are trapped in a set life shape, (a repeated journey which becomes routine, a to b to c = _, may vary in order but _ remains the same) but have the desire to be more than what they are at present. For example, this can occur for people who work in a job that isn't challenging, and when a person feels that they are not reaching their full potential, that they should be doing so much more with their lives. Workers in unsatisfactory jobs will often find themselves daydreaming as a form of stimulation and escapism, to ease the boredom. However a person becomes a sufferer of Psychomundanity as soon as the daydreams involve something entering the mundane as an assistant to help you move out of the life shape, eg having someone come into the shop you work in, shoot you and you have to go to hospital, therefore leaving the life shape and bringing you attention. This kind of daydream which involves violence as a form of escape only occurs in one percent of the population, however 40% of the general population have found to have experienced a daytime hallucination, and 10% of the general population score above the average of psychotic inpatients on measures of delusional thinking.
In the experience of psychosis, the spectacular becomes commonplace and the whole notion of the mundane is thrown into turmoil. If a person appears frequently in your daydreams, they will become highlighted as the ordinary-out-of-place. The ordinary becomes remarkable, this makes it no longer ordinary, which means it is remarkable in the remarkable world of psychosis becomes ordinary once more. Therefore turning the daydreams into another part of the person’s mundane lifestyle.”
Taken from:
“Empowering the Mind Not the Person”
Think Positive Inc
Jenna Graves