THIS IS THE SHAPE OF ME
J P 제피 is a bicultural and bigender artist, color explorer, tree steward, and truthseeker. S(he) challenges dominant narratives and creates inceptive spaces in a practice of spiritual activism and explores the porous relationship between truth, beauty, and identity. He often finds himself deep in the weeds or high in a tree, and sometimes becomes a weed or a wild creature in these explorations. They are committed to tracing intercontinental and spiritual lines between land, trees, culture, ancestors, and community to map past, present, and future ecosystems
of belonging.
SOUL UMBRA
J P's transdisciplinary practice exists in an ontological space developed through community engagement, ceremony, folk songs, sculpture, site-specific installation, works on paper, and performance and presents stories of ritual integration and spiritual journeys. It is polytonal and unconfined by bifurcation and explores bicultural and bigendered traits, the liminality of this world and beyond, and carries forward a heritage while simultaneously exploding convention. This examination is the outgrowth of continual struggle for safety in body and soul by synthesizing tensions and collapsing genres, spaces, identities, and norms.