So you went back to the land of your ancestors, reconnected to a past that you knew little about and then made art about it? Exactly! She said…
Here’s a bit of her backstory on the Czech psyche.
In the fall of 2009, Jessica Seran was invited to Tábor – a small town in the Czech Republic that most of us have probably never heard of, to do a month-long artist residency in a country she had always longed to get to. This is the same country that 90 years before her own great grandmother, “Old Grandma” as she lovingly called her, boarded a train, and then a ship, and left behind forever.
On the day that she was leaving Canada she heard a voice, a tiny voice in my head, that whispered, “You’re going home.”
Jessica went to the Czech Republic and during the course of two and half years she talked extensively to nine Czech people. She asked them about everything that she longed to know about this place and all the things that as an outsider, she had permission to ask…
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