Jeana Eve Klein

Lives and works in Boone, NC, USA

Artist statement

I am thinking about social media: its effectiveness(-less) as an agent for change, as an imperfect archive of this particular moment in history, as an echo chamber for personal beliefs, as a magnifier of personal inadequacies, and as a vehicle for virtue-signaling. When life is mediated online, it is flattened and hyper-simplified. In this post-truth society, words’ meanings have shifted. Singular words can be interpreted in a thousand different nuanced ways. I am constructing words—sometimes singly and sometimes paired—with variable meanings depending on context and inflection, through a variety of textile and digital processes designed to align the metaphorical feeling of the word with the literal feeling of the finished object.

Artwork