Meet the Hot Shots : Jenny Walters

Your name
Jenny Walters
Your Age
31
Where are you from
Kansas City, MO
Where do you live now?
Chicago (Ukranian Village)
What's your day job?
Teaching photo and shooting & editing videos about organic farming. (Lots of cow footage.)
Artist's Statement
I like to perform a sort of psychological anthropology via performance and the photo/video document. I am especially attracted to performative gestures, scenarios and iterations that signal the complexities of relationships with others, oneself and the future.
My most recent work explores specifically both physical and experiential aging, as I've witnessed through my family and myself. I discovered that vulnerability as revealed by a parent to his/her child becomes a complicated point of power exchange and role reversal. Child becomes caregiver and simultaneously loses her caregiver in the process. In this sacrifice, the mythology of one's parents (and one's belief in it) crumbles and a deeper intimacy occurs in its failure. In our failures we begin to see each other and ourselves and draw closer together. This point of power exchange, in all its manifestations is what I am most interested in.
This work, along with the recent photographic Future Self-Portraits series, has been time spent in preparation for the future, practicing for the perceived "inevitable."
Which artists inspire you? (Not necessarily photographers.)
Pina Bausch
Describe that moment when you knew for sure that photography was something you wanted to pursue seriously.
I can't think of a time when i didn't WANT to pursue photography seriously--it just took me a while to realize i could do whatever i wanted.
What kind of camera do you use?
Mamiya 7
What's your favorite beverage?
Daytime: Water
After 5: Greyhound
What's your favorite movie?
Classic: Sunset Boulevard
Contemporary: Waiting for Guffman
What's your Favorite Quote?
I can never remember quotes. My mom always used to say "this too shall pass" when I was panicking about something. [Ed note: Mine too!] I'm pretty sure that saying didn't originate with her--but it's so true.
Where do you want to go on your dream vacation?
To a castle in Italy, by the sea, with all of my friends, where everyone has a scooter to ride.
What's the last CD you listened to?
Elton John: Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy
What are you reading now?
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
What's your favorite season?
Summer
Favorite color?
I like blues and chocolate brown.
What's your favorite food?
Ethiopian food--the bread all sloppy with the juices and the meats and the vegetables -- and Thai food, too.
Do you have an interesting/obscure hobby? If so, tell us about it.
Bingo!
It's Saturday night. Are you going out or staying in? Oh, it just depends on my mood...

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