Johnnie Bess

"change makes cents"

“Creating art is an expression of my fascination with the world around me, particularly and most recently, Washington D.C. Many of my years as a youth were spent moving across the globe. The ebb and flow of that early travel carries on to this day and has molded in me a great sensitivity to, and awareness of the energy of my surroundings.

As a result I am fascinated by the collective psyche of a place as expressed in cultural norms, emotional states, and degrees of separation or lack there of in the relationships of the people in any given community I may find myself. My work serves as a creative meditation process in which I am given the opportunity to express the profundity of the relationship between one’s self and their environment.”