Jenna makes photos and performances. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, Jenna touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repet… Read more

Jenna makes photos and performances. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, Jenna touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations. Her photos often refers to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, she tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place. Her works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By using popular themes such as sexuality, family structure and violence, she makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of American superabundance and marketing. Her works are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly.

jenna - i think you are by far the most hilarious person on flickr. the comments you leave on my stream ALWAYS make me bust out laughing. so much so, i think i am going to start leaving a hand towel next to the computer to wipe up the spittle from my monitor. your photography is creative & fun. and i am SO thankful… Read more

jenna - i think you are by far the most hilarious person on flickr. the comments you leave on my stream ALWAYS make me bust out laughing. so much so, i think i am going to start leaving a hand towel next to the computer to wipe up the spittle from my monitor. your photography is creative & fun. and i am SO thankful that you have chosen photography as a creative outlet for all the craziness inside your brain. thanks for being you. and thanks for allowing us to experience it. :-)

This has got to be one among just a few of my favorite photostreams. It's never simply a photo and a short caption, but a lengthy story that led her to the photograph. She shares her life, her thoughts, sorrows, joys, rants, raves, frustrations, and pretty much normal events of life with total strangers as if she has k… Read more

This has got to be one among just a few of my favorite photostreams. It's never simply a photo and a short caption, but a lengthy story that led her to the photograph. She shares her life, her thoughts, sorrows, joys, rants, raves, frustrations, and pretty much normal events of life with total strangers as if she has known them all her life. I look forward every day to see what she has writeen new in her Flickr diary. I particularly enjoy her (how could I put it)...warped, or at least distorted sense of humor, especially at herself. I must admit that I am addicted to her stories just as much as I enjoy her remarkable photography. She has taught me to write about my own photographs, although not nearly as well. Thank you so much for showing me what you see and think through the viewfinder. Keep the outstanding images and stories coming!

One of the most remarkable and precious people I have ever had the priviledge to cross paths with....her devotion to her sister, Deb, as Deb fought her brave and inspiring fight with leukemia has been an example nothing short of amazing from a sister's heart filled with deep unconditional love and compassionate feeling… Read more

One of the most remarkable and precious people I have ever had the priviledge to cross paths with....her devotion to her sister, Deb, as Deb fought her brave and inspiring fight with leukemia has been an example nothing short of amazing from a sister's heart filled with deep unconditional love and compassionate feeling bared for the whole world to see and be encouraged with as none of us ever know when we will be called to walk a path like this and the example set by these two beautiful amazing sisters is phenomenal!!! Thank you both and may God bless you and give you peace always!!!! All of this comes forth in whidbychick's incredible photostream!!!! She is an amazing and wonderful Flickr friend!!!! Prayers and Gentle Hugs!!!