AUTUMN RESIDENTS 2019
jen iskow
(United States)
Shanghai Mountain. Exhibited at Patyolat, 2019.
Shanghai Mountain is a semi-fictional place where personal mythologies, dreams, and stories go to live their own paracosmic afterlife. Combining imagery and motifs from Appalachian and Eastern European folklore with memory, trauma and magical realism, Shanghai Mountain opens its doors to a world that almost was, and has yet to be.
Photos by János Szabó
Jen Iskow is an illustrator, graphic designer, musician, and zine-maker based in a very tiny-but-lovely town called Thomas, West Virginia, U.S.A. Her work aims to present folklore, traditional arts, and the invisible forces that move us, motivate us, and inspire fear and desire in us, through contemporary and collaborative methods of DIY printing, publishing, and field recording.