Portfleet, Jess

The following essay includes information that surrounds my investigations into the human desire to invest in objects. This writing accompanies questions concerning systems built for, by, and with things, as well as the possibilities of breaching those boundaries. Explorations around what becomes available in this stuff when significance becomes both flexible and untethered are considered from separate, sometimes overlapping vantages within my practice. Using complicate, devotion, dualism, evidence, fraternize, gap, interpretation, naiveté, riddle, and unsettle as anchor points, I contemplate the real and sensual, the emotional and physical, experiences that objects provoke in all types of possible relationships.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.

In support of Jess Portfleet's MFA, low residency, degree.