Jenna Johnson

Becoming the Body of My Mind

“Becoming the Body of My Mind” is a series of wearables created to express the artist’s personal experiences with gender identity. Many people have a certain idea in their mind of what a non-binary person “should” look like, which usually centers around androgeny; however only a small portion of the non-binary community actually focuses on an androgenous aestheic. As a non-binary individual who does not fit into the adrogeny label, the artist wants to express that their identity, as well as anyone else who does not fit into a specific category, as a non-binary person is valid. Being non-binary is a very diverse experience, especially since non-binary is an umbrella term relating to any non-cisgender identity. Jenna Johnson is from a small town in Michigan where being queer is not widely accepted, so coming to terms with their gender identity was a long struggle. They primarily work within the realm of fibers, as well as occasionally working in printmaking. The majority of their works focus on the concepts of nostalgia and memory and how these two can form one’s identity.