Jennifer Hart Explores Transformation and Humanity in ‘Sex, Drugs and Butterflies’
thegavoice.comIf you were to look up “perseverance” in the dictionary, you would find a picture of Jennifer Hart. Raised in rural Kentucky in a home with no running water or indoor plumbing, the only art she was exposed to was that of sewing and quilting. “I was raised in a community that cared absolutely nothing about art.
Nothing. Zero,” she told Georgia Voice. “Not only that, my mother was very abusive. She was obsessed with crushing the creativity out of me.
I learned very early on to hide my creativity, to hide anything I made. I’m really not supposed to be making art. I’m not supposed to try to make a living as an artist.
All of the factors that would encourage art didn’t exist for me. From a lot of fucking work, here I am.” Flash forward to today, and Hart is using her quilting background to explore uncomfortable topics.
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