JAKKI CAFARELLI
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About Me

Whenever I have the chance and am feeling idle in my current location, I book weekend vacations or sometimes even one way tickets without any thought or worry of returning home. I've hitchhiked across 5 countries, biked the Pacific Coast, moved to Scotland on a romantic whim, climbed the Pyramid of the Moon,  cycled with circus clowns in Berlin, skinny dipped in Barcelona, slept under a meteor shower in butt fuck France, and had a dance party during a monsoon in Busan. Throughout these travels I've collected not only memories, but found pieces of paper, and train tickets used for collages. I use these to create a visual reference of my experiences. My work is then the manifestation  of my connection with the metaphysical and my attempt to give substance to the intangible. The existential philosophy I obtain correlates with various ideas about the disposition of an individual’s connection with the environment and the coexistence we all collectively share. I take pleasure in the poetic qualities of line and shadow and strive to create a dialog that does not only seek to solve the mysteries of the universe, but rather to simply explore these riddles with an excited fascination. 

I received my degree from Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri where I focused in Sculpture and Art History, after one year of Foundations at the Milwaukee Instutitute of Art and Design.

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Adventure and authentic experiences are an essential part of what makes us who we are. I've hitchhiked across 5 countries, biked the Pacific Coast, moved to Scotland on a romantic whim, climbed the Pyramid of the Moon, cycled with circus clowns in Berlin, skinny dipped in the Mediterranean Sea, and slept under a meteor shower in the south of France. I’m interested in taking these embedded  memories and creating a disposition of my connection with the environment and the coexistence we all share through three-dimensional designs.  

Currently, I am employed at the School of the Art Institute.

I received my degree from Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri where I focused in Sculpture and Art History, after one year of Foundations at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.