Vessels
Holding My Breath
Oil on Panel, 14 × 18 in.
This painting is the first in a new series titled Vessels, exploring the symbolism of womanhood, motherhood, and the feminine capacity to hold life, loss, or emptiness.
It is an intensely personal reflection on what it meant to carry life within a fragile vessel, and to watch from the outside looking in as that life struggled to survive.
Afterlife
A visual meditation on consciousness and what exists beyond the physical realm.
Symbols within the work suggest the body as a portal — that even when the flame is extinguished, the light within us remains.
Rather than sorrow, Afterlife explores transition and transformation, suggesting something enduring, serene, and quietly beautiful beyond this life.
RIP Selfie
A satirical series that reimagines social media vanity through a skeletal lens.
Monochromatic skeletons strike iconic selfie poses, exposing the absurdity of curated self-image.
Playful yet macabre, the series offers a candy-colored meditation on ego, mortality, and the need to be seen.
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Jennifer Parisi
Artist | California, USA
Jennifer Parisi is an American representational oil painter whose symbolic still lifes and landscapes explore mortality, hope, loss, and the emotional narratives revealed through ordinary objects and places.
Through symbolic storytelling and traditional oil painting techniques, she creates quiet spaces for reflection, inviting viewers to look more closely, inwardly, and with greater empathy.