Artist's Statement



I'm not really sure just how I do what I do as I create. As I write or sculpt or paint, play an instrument or sing, I disappear, becoming whatever it is that is being creatively born. It is only in a sort of shimmering aftermath that I realize I have been absent, and like a whale emerging from the depths suddenly 'I am' once more.
I am sitting in a room. There is a window beside me, softened at its edges by curtains, and a breeze pulls through. There is a floor beneath my feet. Where have I been?

Then I look and see that the paper beneath my hands is no longer blank, or the room resonates with the music that has flown forth from the guitar I am holding. Words have crowded onto the page of my notebook like a gathering of gleeful old friends. Something I cannot fully explain, whose origins are a complete mystery, exists, where before it did not.


While I do not know how I do what I do, I deeply know why. Much of the world is in pain, and those of us in it feel, in various ways, the dissonance, as the pain reverberates through. Something is wrong with the way we regard the Earth. Something is broken as we treat each other so poorly, as we stagnate in hate, and as we are absorbed by fear. Something needs to change, as we are so bad to ourselves, as we succumb to doubt, isolation and anger.

As I disappear, I think I must be seeking a solution to some of these challenges, issues, and difficulties. What I bring back with me, in words or images or music, responds to the friction, loneliness, misunderstanding and hurt in the world. It questions the way things are, and suggests kindness, symbiosis, awareness and playfulness. It acknowledges what we may lose if we cannot change from our present course, but never fully deviates from the joy and brightness that is still possible.


- Jorie Jenkins



Monday, June 6, 2016

Katio the Water Walker


Katio the Water Walker

The water walkers have a particular Earthspeaking specialization, but there are various forms of their expertise. Some water walkers 'read the water's words' and take samples in a particular region and present them for testing, if toxins, changes in salinity, or pollutants are a factor. Other Walkers serve as Ambassadors for creatures beneath the water, while still others perform a similar role for those who depend on the ecosystem above the water's surface.
Found most typically in marshes, near lakes, and on the shores of streams and rivers, they can occasionally be found working along coastal areas. But seaside regions are governed more exclusively by sea-dwellers, and the land-based water walkers leave the authority of the ocean to those who reside in it.



Approximately 20 inches high, 16 inches wide. 

Katio features cruelty-free feathers, found mollusk shell, polymer clay, 
a re-purposed wool scarf, black lace, glass eyes and hand-spun fibers.
acrylic paint and chop sticks. Her head and arms are adaptable, 
and her legs are jointed. 

$350
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