Works

Jocelyn Zerr

it’s nice inside

Windows, Ink, preserved leaves, chicken wire, adhesive vinyl, thread, and floral wire

2025-2026

Through printmaking, fiber, and sculpture, I construct narrative environments that draw from mythology to examine time, inevitability, and the illusion of control. Reimagining Pandora’s Box as a personal framework, I merge Hellenistic iconography with contemporary anxieties. Plants, figures, and symbolic forms embody the dualities within Pandora’s story—hope and devastation, growth and decay, containment and release. The greenhouse becomes a central metaphor: a structure meant to nurture life while enclosing it. Using reclaimed windows, wire fencing, and floral imagery, I create interactive spaces that invite viewers to look through shifting layers of transparency. Like flowers that fade once picked, the work reflects the tension between preservation and inevitable deterioration.

it’s nice inside

solo senior BFA thesis exhibit documentation

Pieces Included:

Flower Windows, 2026

Screen print ink on clear adhesive vinyl, reclaimed windows.

Exposed organic material, including symbolic flowers: dahlia: inner strength, aster: wisdom and knowledge, and lilies: spiritual transformation and emotional balance.

Doily Windows, 2026

Screen print ink on clear adhesive vinyl, reclaimed windows

Exposed doilies, made by my great grandmother, and inherited by my mother. A weaving together of family generations through loss and grief.

Doily Leaves, 2026

Screen print ink, glycerine preserved leaves

Exposed doilies, printed onto preserved leaves from the house I currently reside in. A statement on the fragility and natural deterioration of organic material as it relates to the human experience.

Elpis: The Gardeners' Remaining Hope, 2025-2026

Chicken wire, floral wire, preserved leaves, thread, and polyester fabric

A wire and organic material figure representing Elpis, the mythological figure of hope, is left in Pandora’s box once evil has been expelled into the world surrounding. Hand-woven panel and sewn dress.