Things People Say
Jessa’s films and pictures are poems, secrets, songs, utopian and dystopian prayers. She is a gentle being with a fierce point of view. In general she and her doings/beings fall right into my favorite pocket of 70’s romanticism combined with the contemporary surreal. Get ready to daydream about her and her work forever.
Her photos achieve a kind of hallowed, supra-planar quality but also still rooted in everyday things, reminding us that we can escape the mundane because the mundane is as much our psychic creation as the sacred.
-Blair Hansen
Your Spain film moved me so deeply — you clearly let the collective unconscious express itself through you as its medium. I’m in awe and admiration of the strength you carry as an artist, as it takes supreme energy to withstand the unconscious in that way and remain whole and intact as a person.
-Alma Bigham Tetto
One of the most empowering and vital components to Jessa’s intention as an artist and community member is her empathy. Her fierce belief in understanding, respecting, and finding true authenticity of any one person or group of people has led her down a path of potent connections.
-Babette DeLafayette Pendleton
The term “visual fluency” was coined to describe the talents of people like Jessa Carter. The Northern California-born artist, photographer, graphic designer, stylist, curator and creative director works across a range of mediums, from commercial projects to fine art, applying to each her unerring, highly stylized eye.
- City Arts Magazine
Her photos achieve a kind of hallowed, supra-planar quality but also still rooted in everyday things, reminding us that we can escape the mundane because the mundane is as much our psychic creation as the sacred.
-Blair Hansen
Your Spain film moved me so deeply — you clearly let the collective unconscious express itself through you as its medium. I’m in awe and admiration of the strength you carry as an artist, as it takes supreme energy to withstand the unconscious in that way and remain whole and intact as a person.
-Alma Bigham Tetto
One of the most empowering and vital components to Jessa’s intention as an artist and community member is her empathy. Her fierce belief in understanding, respecting, and finding true authenticity of any one person or group of people has led her down a path of potent connections.
-Babette DeLafayette Pendleton
The term “visual fluency” was coined to describe the talents of people like Jessa Carter. The Northern California-born artist, photographer, graphic designer, stylist, curator and creative director works across a range of mediums, from commercial projects to fine art, applying to each her unerring, highly stylized eye.
- City Arts Magazine
Powerful compositions that capture and create moments of emotional connection, synthesis, and spirit.
- Bran Ferren
...all the strange feelings the film stirs up....
i’ll try to describe it here in a selected list:
beginning of time
first breath of oxygen
sticking your hands into a bowl of firm jello
insects being born
the experience you have when peeling an orange and carefully removing all the little pithy parts
all wrapped up in a blanket of mysterious tension, not a bad tension, but maybe more of a curious tension
As someone who makes films, I know how much work it all is, to get the details right.
- Theresa Wingert
What shamanic activation of experience….that much intentionality has so much juice…it’s like a memory of something we all could do, have done, will do. AN INVITATION!!!!!!!!!!!
- Lisa Fitzhugh
I am forever grateful for Jessa, a badass creative with a mind of a genius and a heart of gold who took a chance on a stranger to bring my vision to life.
- Cleo Barnette
- Bran Ferren
...all the strange feelings the film stirs up....
i’ll try to describe it here in a selected list:
beginning of time
first breath of oxygen
sticking your hands into a bowl of firm jello
insects being born
the experience you have when peeling an orange and carefully removing all the little pithy parts
all wrapped up in a blanket of mysterious tension, not a bad tension, but maybe more of a curious tension
As someone who makes films, I know how much work it all is, to get the details right.
- Theresa Wingert
What shamanic activation of experience….that much intentionality has so much juice…it’s like a memory of something we all could do, have done, will do. AN INVITATION!!!!!!!!!!!
- Lisa Fitzhugh
I am forever grateful for Jessa, a badass creative with a mind of a genius and a heart of gold who took a chance on a stranger to bring my vision to life.
- Cleo Barnette