Strength in Softness, Jen Bann, 2024, Print and Mixed Medium, $500

Artist Statement

Based in San Francisco | unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land

Jenn Ban (she/they) is a Queer Filipinx Multidisciplinary artist, Healer, community organizer, and cultural worker whose work focuses on spiritual connection and soul transcendence. They work with various mediums from sculpture, tattoos (offered as “Sacred Skin Adornments”), painting, film, sounds, and more. 

Strength in Softness

How do we, as female bodied people, authentically navigate the world with the inherit softness of our being? I see the womxn around me harden by their own experiences, by others experiences. Carrying what might not be theirs to hold. How do you feel through it? How do you alchemize? You're allowed to be soft. You're allowed to be held. You're allowed to live a magic soft life in this lifetime. I honor you and your softness.