Watch a slideshow of items from Jessixa’s Grew series that showed at

Published 7:00 am Thursday, May 7, 2009

Watch a slideshow of items from Jessixa’s Grew series that showed at Suite 100 last year.Fair warning, Jessixa Bagley’s Grew show wraps up its show at Capitol Hill’s Vermillion Gallery on Sunday. Take a peek while you still have a chance. When Jessixa opened this show at Suite 100 last year, our old friend Brian J. Barr said:When I look at her new series, “Grew,” I can’t help but think of the ongoing struggle between the natural world and the human-made world. We see it every time weeds grow up through cracks in the pavement, every time a tree is removed to make way for a strip mall, every time vines snake up and blanket the entire sides of old buildings. In “Grew,” she juxtaposes elements from our childhoods (playground slides, crayons, etc.) against leafless trees. In one particularly intriguing piece, tree limbs and roots bust through a school bus. It calls to mind the original spontaneity we were born with but had disciplined out of us via the rigidity of the public school system. However, the beauty of these pieces is that even though it’s obvious there is criticism of the system, it’s not demonized. Rather, it seems Jessixa retains a fondness for those days.