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.

Death, Sorrow, and Other Miseries, 2025-2026

Chicken wire, floral wire

Wire figures representing the evils that have fled Pandora’s box.

Watering Tin, 2026

Chicken wire, floral wire, epoxy resin, dried flowers

Wire watering tin, expelling Elpis’ hope throughout the box.

Guest Book, 2026

Risograph print, hand bound book

A guest book is found both in happy and sad environments; perhaps this one represents is a funeral or some other form of sorrowful event.

Classes Portfolio:

Ganymede; 2023

Relief linoleum block, screen print

12” x 12”

Hemithea; 2023

CMYK screen print, twine, grape juice.

15” × 20”

Narcissus; 2023

Screen print.

8” x 10”

Fragmentary Colossal Head of Youth; 2022

Relief linoleum block, collage, twine

36” x 48”

Avoiding the Wrath of the Gods; 2024

Screen print, hand bound zine

8.5” x 5.5” x 0.75”

From the Window of Grace; 2022

Relief linoleum block, reclaimed window

2’ x 2’ 6”

Hermes; 2025

Relief linoleum block, screen print

24” x 36”