Crossroads is one of Jessica's most deeply personal works — a richly layered, emotionally complex composition created on Arches cover paper in colored pencil, graphite, and ink, and printed on acid-free paper. It is a work born from a pivotal moment of life — the profound, universal tension of being a mother while pursuing a career and creative life in the big city — rendered with honesty, beauty, and extraordinary artistic vision.
The composition speaks in two distinct visual languages, masterfully united. At the base, a literal crossroads — a grey urban intersection with white dashed lines, power poles, and the angular silhouettes of city buildings glowing with warm amber windows against deep navy — grounds the work in the real, recognizable world of streets, choices, and direction. These are the roads of a life at a crossroads, concrete and unavoidable.
Rising above this urban foundation, the composition transforms into something luminous and free — a swirling vision of soft pink, golden yellow, and warm peach that billows and spirals upward like breath, like spirit, like the interior life that persists and insists even amid life's most demanding seasons. A graceful figurative form of the mother reaches and turns within this swirling energy, tender and vulnerable, at her center a womb-like core where life itself begins — the profound origin of all that she carries. Around her, the angular silhouettes of city buildings press in from all sides — the architecture of ambition, career, and urban life in constant dialogue with the deepest callings of the heart.
The tension between the grounded and the airborne, the urban and the ethereal, the structured and the free, makes Crossroads a work that speaks to anyone who has ever stood at the intersection of who they are and who the world needs them to be.
For the discerning collector, Crossroads is a rare and deeply resonant work of contemporary figurative abstract art — one that rewards long, contemplative looking and speaks with quiet power to the universal experience of navigating life's most meaningful choices. It is a natural conversation starter and an emotionally transformative addition to any curated collection, library, or living space.
Available as a signed, limited edition giclée print — just 50 pieces per size — in 9"×12", 14"×18.5", and 18"×24".