S C R O L L S

2022 - present

Repetition is a form of change. -Brian Eno

Referencing ancient manuscripts, Jenny’s ongoing examination of the scroll as a form started in formative years and was unintentionally rekindled at the tail end of Covid- 19 lockdown. The paper scrolls are comprised of a layered poem committed to memory, text obscured deliberately through repetition. These meditative works explore ephemerality, tone and the edges of impermanence.

The ink on these ten foot tall scrolls (ten in total) is made from the ashes of a decade of the artist’s personal journals, embedding the work with material traces of memory, loss and transformation. What you see is grief made visible, a textual palimpsest and quite literal weaving of words upon words into oblivion. The artist questioned if committing a singular poem to memory could serve as a future anchor should she confront Alzheimer’s as her beloved Lola did.