Artist Statement

Jacqueline Paesano Wood

Fake News

I’m generally bemused at my own existence and I have been since I was young. I would day dream,

‘What if everyone I knew was really a robot and had never been real?’

I remember a girl in my late teens telling me that I once said something really weird “What if the sky was green and the grass was blue?”

I assumed everyone thought things like that. It seemed pretty normal to me.

It feels like life had always been a roller coaster. I couldn’t fathom why.

I remember a period of time when someone explained that media and news was not quite what it appeared to be.

It never left me.

There was a time when it troubled me. The system, control, wanting to be free.

I still find it strange, but feel that society couldn’t exist without its hierarchy.

I like making stuff. I like doing improvisation.

So here I explore using both