A collection of selfies. Or rather, documentary photos of myself in different situations. Originally I was going to do a selfie in every bathroom I would ever encounter. I still want to make this a bathroom-centric series, but for now, I will post all the selfies I have. It’s interesting to think of the different …
Images
Men
Men, oil on canvas, 16ft x 9.5 ft Painted from life, I would trace the body with a long handled brush, then have them stand to the side as I painted their full body portraits Sargent-style, backing up 15-20 feet, then running up to the canvas to make one or two marks. Each portrait took …
MARKITECT and Lee Milby Architecture Thesis Presentation at The Cooper Union
So Markitect and I have been collaborating closely in the past few months. It all started with a text message from Mark asking me if I “still do video stuff,” and indeed, I do! Since then, we have been working together developing a number of different collaborative “sketches.” Pieces of thought, articulated in performance and …
Jessica Chen (J CHEN Project) Fashion Night Out – The Set NYC, “ABOLITIONISTA!” Project Benefit
June 5th, 2014 we will be presenting a video of our shadow exploration collaborative project. We have enough material to produce several versions of this piece, and plan to experiment further using editing, theater, and music in both live performance and digital forms. Jessica is planning to adapt the piece for stage performance as a solo and ensemble …
Coco + Liz Photoshoot / Videoshoot
My dear friend, DJ G.Brown introduced me to Miss Nazira Sacasa and her company, Coco + Liz. She needed a photographer to shoot her looks for spring/summer, so we organized a day shoot and I took photos and video using both my Canon and GH2. I learned a lot, working on a time crunch of …
Satellite Image Blog, Satellite-Delight
http://satellite-delight.tumblr.com/ A couple of years ago, while I was collaborating a lot with Christopher, I was also looking at a lot of Google Satellite images. I would start by visiting a place I had never been, or wished to go some day, and follow any rivers or interesting roads, colors, textures, capturing screenshots like a tourist …