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JESSA CARTA*

  1. Rhizomatic Repair(2023)

  2. Trash & Treasure(2023)

  3. Exchange Rate(2023)

  5. Veriditas(2021)

  6. Night Blindness(2021)

  7. Twin Origin(2022)

  8. Breath Type(2021)

  9. Dead Reckoning(2018)

  10. LAND LAND(2017-present)

  11. Lifespan Of A Memory(2019)

  12. Resting Eye Monument(2016)

  13. Charcoal Gestures(2020)

  14. Because I Was Standing(2017)

  15. Continuous Connected(2016)

  16. LOVECITYLOVE(2013-2016)

  17. Things People Say


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Jessa Carta is an omnidisciplinary artist and creative project consultant. She is compelled towards rhizomatic frameworks, pattern literacy and the healing power of ritual containers. Jessa is attuned to the ineffable wiggliness of nature and its harmonious systems/structures in equal measure.

Jessa’s work tracks the leading lines of value, identity and performativity and plays host and witness to the cycles of life <> death <> life present in our ecosystems and egosystems.

Jessa is a deep empath who opens herself to the collective unconscious and vows to give it expression. Her fierce belief in understanding and respecting authentic truths has led her down a path of seismic connections. What she creates has been described as possessing“a rare mythic perspective”, “assertions of feminine power” and Jessa herself has been referred to as “an underworld intermediary”.

Jessa is currently the prime mover of arts-based research project LAND LAND. Jessa is a founding member of the Seattle-based experimental collective LOVECITYLOVE - a diverse, accessible, and inclusive secular art church. Her education and research has included  certifications as a natural builder, permaculturalist and solidarity economist. These interests intersect to net a practice committed to the regenaissance.

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*Jessa’s patrilineal last name is Carter which means messenger, mail carrier or a person who carts goods. In a move towards fewer belongings and more belonging, less doing and more being, Carta replaces “the messenger” for the message itself from the Latin “paper” “map”.

Project Doula

(2013-present)
above Bigger Than The Universe and Greater Than The World (2021)- a book designed by Jessa Carta as an archive and retelling of herbalist/educator and writer Rachelle Robinett’s father's passing. This book is a product of GRIEF MAPPING, a process/practice guided by Laura Sullivan Cassidy

below Filmed over the span of a week in Sicily, Rebirth (2019) is a mythic, improvisational study of chaos and tragedy, the depths of the underworld, and its opening into creative metamorphosis and power.

Written, produced, and performed by Alma Tetto after her husband’s passing. 
Director of photography, creative direction, and editing by Jessa Carta.
Score by Petra (Chantal Michelle and Brian Allen Simon)




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Night Rind Launch Party (2021)- an installation and event to celebrate the publication of Night Rind, a novella by Kim Upstill.

Sculptural works and event design by Kim Upstill.
Assistant production and documentation by Jessa Carta.


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Soft Vertigo by Sophia Sanford - a 6 track EP

Album artwork, website design, R.F.O.M. music video direction & editing by Jessa Carter



Do you need help giving birth to a creative project? I can assist you and hold your hand and tell you to push or breath while we make a film, audio work, sculptural object, body-based score, document your art show, produce your event, strategizes around your website, design your book, make your album artwork, program a retreat or workshop, make a shrine or sacred space in your home, find the story for your next podcast, develop a mission driven business plan and pitch deck, collaborate with chaos, find your next medium or mode of expression.