Jeannette Perkal is an artist, activist and aspiring art therapist living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Her work combines painting, collage, encaustic, and photography techniques.
She explains, "The heavy, black, 35mm camera I used to create my first photographs changed the way I see the world. Vast, overwhelming spaces became tight, dynamic compositions, and the mundane became extraordinary. Through that lens, I was capable of framing my own world. My artwork reflects that lens turned inward in an exploration of my own emotional landscape, and serves as an outlet through which I navigate concepts such as self, community, love, family, and trauma. The search for home and a sense of place are predominant themes in my work, often illuminated by the appearance of the fantastical in the everyday, an infatuation with finding the decorative in destruction, and a flirtation with the relationship between whimsy and decay."
She explains, "The heavy, black, 35mm camera I used to create my first photographs changed the way I see the world. Vast, overwhelming spaces became tight, dynamic compositions, and the mundane became extraordinary. Through that lens, I was capable of framing my own world. My artwork reflects that lens turned inward in an exploration of my own emotional landscape, and serves as an outlet through which I navigate concepts such as self, community, love, family, and trauma. The search for home and a sense of place are predominant themes in my work, often illuminated by the appearance of the fantastical in the everyday, an infatuation with finding the decorative in destruction, and a flirtation with the relationship between whimsy and decay."
