Artist Statement
My name is Jennifer DeSantis, but you can call me LadyJennD.
I’m a visual DJ. Much like a DJ mixes sounds to create songs, I sample images and text, then combine them to find where they meld, where they mesh. Bits and pieces of random media translate my messages, find their groove, and become whole as my visual songs.
Collage is life. It’s creating order out of chaos, and finding order in the chaos. Entropy enters, entropy retreats. I remix. Re-image. Reimagine …
I mix from items people normally overlook, such as publications long forgotten and discarded. I love to work with antique and vintage papers—the feel and smell, the particular colors/inks used back in the day possess such a je ne sais quoi. Working with these papers also gives me a way to travel back in time, to take something that existed and honor it while also giving it a fresh, new life! I like to blend patterns and ideas that seemingly wouldn’t “go together,” and prove that notion wrong.
I layer on imagination, depth, and sub-text.
I want you to hear my visualization as I express it, not necessarily with words, but with the flow of colors and symbols as a dazzling array of details synched to create an overture, a symphony, or the track you keep coming back to, for its hold on you connects you to something greater, something beyond …
Many of my pieces reflect the oddities contained in the philosophic subconscious and have levels of meanings I hope sing to you, resonate with you. My art comes from the mind, absolutely, but with the heart, and soul speaking in tandem, humming simultaneously. ~ LadyJennD
There is innate rebellion in collage. Destroying something. Creating something out of that destruction. It is liberating! ~ LadyJennD
