This multipart series of artworks on Ocean Optimism and Climate Change Awareness was created for the Port of San Diego at Seaport Village with scientific input from Birch Aquarium and Scripps and Institution of Oceanography with the support of SLP Urban Planning. The goal was to use as many creative methods as possible to connect… Continue reading Ocean Optimism
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At-home STEM Art
As an artist I also work for a non-profit called CoTA (Collaborations: Teachers and Artists) developing lessons that integrate art and STEM curriculum to deepen student learning. Here are a few STEM based art projects I have created. Please feel free to share and use. If you make a project tag me in your social media #jessicalingfindley or email me pictures, I’d love to see them.
Plankton Tea House
51 Ways to Help Fight Climate Change The Plankton Tea House is an interactive installation, where the visitors have a cup of tea with the artist Jessica Ling Findley and talk about the stress and solutions to climate change. After your tea leaf reading you may select one or more of these 51 tea cards,… Continue reading Plankton Tea House
Braving the High Seas Podcast
Climate change is stressful, and it’s real. In the Braving High Seas podcast, artist and producer Jessica Ling Findley invited young people with questions about climate change to talk with scientists and explore the roles we can all take to fight climate change. The music for these episodes was created by kids in workshops called… Continue reading Braving the High Seas Podcast
Marine Protected Area Glamour Pics
Marine Protected Area (MPA) Glam Shots is a project by artist, Jessica Ling Findley, combining retro glamour portraits with sea creatures thriving in Marine Protected Areas (MPA) to highlight successful human actions to help heal our oceans. Get your glam on for the ocean! Sign up to be a model and help spread the word… Continue reading Marine Protected Area Glamour Pics
Endangered Landscape Series
The Victorian era stereoscopic technology used to make images for virtual tourism was the virtual reality of the past. I imagine a future tourism for viewing extinct natural habitats and resources we have lost to a lack of human vision and care. I shoot landscapes with a stereoscopic camera as well as collage images from… Continue reading Endangered Landscape Series
Interior Universe
#TimeTouristSelfies Global Series
These “portrait-bombs” tourists who are out of context into existing landscape paintings. The concept began in a Chinese Restaurant where the Italian decor of the prior restaurant was kept intact and Ming Dynasty tourists taking selfies were added to the remaining Italian landscape paintings. Medium: acrylic on mixed mediumExhibited: 2018 Alexander Salazar GalleryPress NBC
#TimeTouristSelfies Eurasia Series
These “portrait-bombs” tourists who are out of context into existing landscape paintings. The concept began in a Chinese Restaurant where the Italian decor of the prior restaurant was kept intact and Ming Dynasty tourists taking selfies were added to the remaining Italian landscape paintings.MEDIUM: acrylic on mixed medium
Underwater Tea Party
The Rockaway Waterfront Alliance invited me to make the public space under the elevated train more inviting to the people of Rockaway, New York. Reflecting on this beach community’s connection to water, local people were filmed from below and projected under the elevated train structure to appear as if they are defying gravity, creating an… Continue reading Underwater Tea Party
MYTHEOTYPES: Coyote
The Mytheotype Portrait Series explores the intersection of stereotypes and myths of various cultures through textiles in costumes. This model has Mexican and Swiss roots and decided to portray a Coyote who clandestinely guides people over the border and a Coyote spirit, Huehuecoyotl, who is known as a trickster who teaches through pranks. Our world… Continue reading MYTHEOTYPES: Coyote
MYTHEOTYPES: Mother of Dragons
Mytheotype portraits of stereotypes are expanded into mythological creatures. This portrait is of a Hong Kong Grandmother, who labors well into her years and is transformed into the Mother of Dragons, 龍母, Long Mu. Long Mu raised 5 snakes that turned into dragons. In return for her love dragons would help bring rain to her village. Collaboration with Jason Findley,… Continue reading MYTHEOTYPES: Mother of Dragons
AEOLIAN RIDE
The Aeolian Ride, is an international art event inviting the public to inflate as sculptures on bicycles, transforming the landscape of the city. The effect is a sort of joy loop: those riding feel the elation of being a child at play, dazzling bystanders who become giddy, returning joy to the riders. Come join the… Continue reading AEOLIAN RIDE
CONCIOUSNESS
Visual Meditations Medium: Ink & watercolor on paper 7″x10″
SNAKE
Created as an audio/visual response to the Difference Engine artists from Ireland, whose work focused on the internal landscape. The snake resonates with the Hopi stories that there is a snake vibrating sound at the earth’s core and the Australian Aboriginal idea of the songline which maps the horizon and crosses the earth with lessons… Continue reading SNAKE
STEREO CARDS: VISIONS FROM ATLANTIS
Perhaps the people of Atlantis had a tool to make 5th dimensions out of our 4th, the way we make 3 dimensions out of 2. These cards are meant to be viewed with the Anubis, Corn Mother and Horus masks. Mysteries of water, the Hopi chakras, the power of the pyramids build the landscape of… Continue reading STEREO CARDS: VISIONS FROM ATLANTIS
WAVES
Emanations and patterns from the water. Medium: Watercolor
STEREO MASKS
LOS SIENTO POR SONIDO
DETAILS: Embedded zither performance and installation by Jessica Findley and Victoria Keddie. Originally conceived as an interactive installation the blind. MEDIUM: Zither strings, mallets abandoned furniture, spanned 3 rooms in the convent. EXHIBITION: Performed live at “SEQUENCE OF WAVES” 01.29.11 St Cecelia’s Convent Brooklyn, New York
GATE OF ANUBIS
DETAILS: The Gate of Anubis is a project of awakening. Anubis is the Egyptian dog-headed god who helps people into the afterlife. Wearing the mask of Anubis allows the two images to go from 2 dimensional to merge into one 3 dimensional image. The imagery depicts connections between ancient symbolism between Hopi, Egyptian, Hawaiian, Mayan… Continue reading GATE OF ANUBIS
AURA BOOTH
DETAILS: Much like a photo booth, a visitor comes and inserts a donation (which went to a charity Green Apple Kids) and they receive strip of four images of themselves, only instead of a camera inside of the box the artist viewed the visitor through a prism and painted their vibe on the strip, when… Continue reading AURA BOOTH
I LOVE YOU JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
DETAILS: Excorcised negative and positives of the past. PUBLISHED: Chinese Wax Job 2010 MEDIUM: Watercolor
PAPER GHOSTS
PROJECT: The ghosts we leave in the spaces that we live in. These motions and moments are traced and were meant to be left behind. But because we were in Japan these ghosts were very polite and never left a mess. ROLE: Animated & Directed during residency at the Tokyo Wondersite BONUS MATERIAL
LUMEN
DETAILS: an installation composed of 3 parts. 1) Sonic Chandelier – A chandelier suspended from a speaker producing low base sounds. The base sounds are an echo of the period of waves for that day at Far Rockaway, where I surf. It is a reflection on the power of the ocean where all my senses… Continue reading LUMEN
GROW
DETAILS: GROW is a serenade for plants. Living together as lovers, hanging in connected papooses made from reused shopping bags, a plant is paired with a speaker playing sounds and songs especially chosen and made for the plant. Inspired by a vintner in Tuscany who plays classical music to grow better grapes, GROW, is a… Continue reading GROW
FRONT
DETAILS: FRONT Voice-activated, inflatable, conflict suits. You yell and your aggressive sacs inflate while your opponents defensive sacs inflate. A more peaceful way to battle through posture and play. Collaboration with Ralph Borland and Margot Jacobs.
MONKEY SHOW
DETAILS:Animation about my uncle’s kidnapping in china when he was a toddler. Audio is my mother relaying the story. MEDIUM:Paint on glass