Jenni Glen

Titles: I break in two over you/Of coarse I see you I do (2009)

This piece was inspired two songs called "autumn's monologue" and "the fiction we live" by From Autumn To Ashes. "The fiction we live" is in response to " Autumn's monologue"

Originally I started out with two different paintings, I was trying to live vicariously through these songs to help me get over a really bad time. So I painted two separate paintings to illustrate the different perspectives of these charaters.And they fit so well together, because they belong together. Its a bitter sweet love story. Where one loves another but feels unnotticed, but the other actually does notice them.

If we were to separate the paintings the story is this..

I break in two over you (2009)

Atumn's Monologue

Oh why can't I be what you need?

A new improved version of me

But I'm nothing so good

No, I'm nothing

Just bones, a lonely ghost burning down songs

Of violence of love and of sorrow

I beg for just one more tomorrow

Where you hold me down, fold me in

Deep, deep, deep in the heart of your sins

I break in two over you, oh

I break in two

And each piece of me dies

And only you can give the breath of life

But you don't see me, you don't

Here I'm pinned between darkness and light

Bleached and blinded by these nights

Where I'm tossing and tortured 'til dawn

By you, visions of you then you're gone.

The shock bleeds the red from my face

When I hear someone's taken my place.

How could love be so thoughtless, so cruel?

When all, all that I did was for you

Of coarse I see you I do (2009)

and in response, the other painting's story would be..

The fiction we live-From Autumn To Ashes

You might be just what I need

No I would not change a thing

Been dreaming of this so long

But we only exist in this song

The thing is, I'm not worth the sorrow

And if you come and meet me tomorrow

I will hold you down, fold you in

Deep, deep, deep in the fiction we live

I break in two over you

I break in two

And if a piece of you dies

Autumn, I will bring you back to life

Of course I see you

I do.

Title: Lonely and The Octopus (2007)

Also, my pride and joy! Lonely was my first stencil and the octopus is just always there.

Lonely is my mermaid, and the octopus or "Skully Fish" is her comrad in this story.

Medium: acrylic + stencil + cardboard

Title: You are capable of finding philosophical meaning in everyday life(2007)

When I was at Durham College, Sean Mcquay my prof. and bro:P gave us this hectic assignment. He brought in fortune cookies. The title of this piece was my fortune, and thats when I created the treeheart.

I started off thinking about trees and autumn, and I always thought that when the leaves fall, some sort of nervous system was revealed, it was as if nature was baring it's self to us. Sean and I often compared ideas and theory's about naked forest's looking like a nervous system and that lead to phiolsophical disgussions about life and connections and our connection to nature, thus we have tree heart!

Medium: acrylic + cardboard