Je Suis Janessa
A Closer Look at [Janessa Robinson](/artists/janessa-robinson) and “Paris” Janessa Robinson is an American artist known for her playful cross-disciplinary art that spans drama, theater, poetry, and music to illustration, graphic design, music production, film, and photography. Recently featured in [CODAME](/orgs/codame)’s collaboration with SuperRare, a leading online Crypto Art platform, she combines art and technology to “explore the condition of living and all that comes with it: birth, curiosity, suffering, happiness, sickness, death, and rebirth.” A true lover of philosophy, Janessa pursues themes involving metaphysics, quantum physics, interpretations of nature, and a global perspective to stimulate enlightenment in her audience. Despite the seriousness at the rear, her work (and her life) is “artful and playful” at the forefront. As she sees it, play is an important part of living. She has committed herself to explore play as an adult “with the heart of a child in wonder and amazement by the process of discovery.” Art and play are tools for self-expression and communication in her world. In terms of inspirations, she finds these in a striking moment of a compulsion to create. Fleeting but meaningful, the dialogues that she has with the universe “or her superconscious” allowed her to pose questions or release intentions into the stars. Sudden information then comes to her, like a message, which she transforms into art — her art. Like other artists, she also encounters inspiration in an intentional process. She uses various methods in this process to develop art during ideation sessions. Janessa creates whenever she wants or does not want to. This liberty in the practice of creation, heavily influenced by Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, and Hans Zimmer, stimulates devotion to the development of her craft and the transformation of emotion and sensation into her art. Her most important techniques are not artistically technical — which we see as hand-drawn illustrations, digital filters and effects, and playing with color, patterns, depth, and perspective. She believes that the most important instead is relying on intrapersonal psychology tools that sustain a state of continuous introspection. It goes without saying that meditation to concentration music, film scores, or classical music takes an integral role in her process.