Cusper's Column No. 3 - Jenna Fletcher
Jenna Fletcher is one of our Ultimate fans and friends of On the Cusp, and we couldn't be happier to bring back the Cusper's Column with a feature on her. If you aren't familiar with her work/ general beauty, the low-down is that she is a bank teller by day and a badass awesome lady all the time, with some tiny pie expertise and serious organization skills thrown in too. Basically we have a hard time talking about her without the topic of marriage coming up. Her writing and a few photos have appeared in Home, Echo, and Hunt, plus she published her own zine called Bright & Tired a little over a year ago.
What inspires you? Distance and the relationship I have to and with it. Live music played in cramped spaces. Public transportation. Vaguely romantic experiences. The way people's hands move. The idea of home as a state of mind. Red front doors. I am fortunate to know a lot of people who are making a lot of really incredible art, so I have to work pretty hard for excuses to not be inspired. What’s your process like for a typical piece of work? I don't really know what the word "typical" means in regard to my work anymore, but I can tell you that the process is generally dictated by the piece and not, instead, vice versa. Sometimes it's a really feverous process, you know, me furiously scribbling something out, trying to get it all down before it escapes me. Things can get a little... manic. And sometimes it's sort of slow and painful, a little bit more like pulling teeth. Pieces usually show up with their own set of rules, I guess. All I can do is stick with that and see where it takes me. It can be frustrating because there isn't any sort of mindset or trigger that I can give myself to start things off, but it means that I'm usually never bored when I'm working on something--it's a surprise. The entire thing is very hot or cold or nothing at all.
What do you enjoy aside from being amazing and writing thingz?
Questions like this really stress me out, okay. Dream sandwich. Go. It'd be some sort of open-faced, cheese and pepperoni sandwich. In some countries they refer to this as pizza. And most importantly, what’s the deepest secret your bun holds? I'd like to share, but even I don't know. The bun hasn't given me that sort of clearance just yet, but maybe when I'm older. It's probably some National Treasure type shit.
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Find Jenna at littlecartography.tumblr.com.
