“Jessalyn's work engages in the human nature to collect things, consciously and unconsciously. Her practice incorporates elements of great repetition like making Risograph prints, buttons, vinyl wall stickers, and punching out thousands of paper flowers for her primary installations. All these works are imbued with a lurking sense of slightly off-kilter optimism, keeping them curious.”

—Drew Bennett, Jane Paul Jessalyn Val Stefanie Barbara Jeff Chris Tucker Kelly: Facebook Artist in Residence program, second season (2014)

From my own reflection in Open Form: Facebook Artists in Residence, 2012–2017 (2017):

“The open commission and long duration of the Facebook residency gave me room to experiment. I'd been working mostly in small-scale collage using archival or found paper ephemera. I wanted to scale up my work, and use different materials, but wasn't sure how to accomplish this. Ultimately I was able to apply my interests in composition, color,texture, negative space, repetition, and industrial and craft processes (paper punches,photocopiers), using familiar imagery (flowers, everyday objects, architectural elements),to create larger scale wall installations.

Since then, I have almost entirely moved away from collage using found materials and have integrated these newer processes into the core of my practice. Now, most of my work begins as drawings that I re-create as vector files, then cut out in paper or vinyl using a plotter much like the one I had access to at Facebook. Using adhesive vinyl mainly produced for commercial sign making, I went from using commercially produced stickers to creating my own. My practice used to be entirely analog, but l've been learning new skills with programs like Adobe Illustrator. This has made me think in different ways and has been a fruitful challenge."

“Jessalyn's work engages in the human nature to collect things, consciously and unconsciously. Her practice incorporates elements of great repetition like making Risograph prints, buttons, vinyl wall stickers, and punching out thousands of paper flowers for her primary installations. All these works are imbued with a lurking sense of slightly off-kilter optimism, keeping them curious.”

—Drew Bennett, Jane Paul Jessalyn Val Stefanie Barbara Jeff Chris Tucker Kelly: Facebook Artist in Residence program, second season (2014)

From my own reflection in Open Form: Facebook Artists in Residence, 2012–2017 (2017):

“The open commission and long duration of the Facebook residency gave me room to experiment. I'd been working mostly in small-scale collage using archival or found paper ephemera. I wanted to scale up my work, and use different materials, but wasn't sure how to accomplish this. Ultimately I was able to apply my interests in composition, color,texture, negative space, repetition, and industrial and craft processes (paper punches,photocopiers), using familiar imagery (flowers, everyday objects, architectural elements),to create larger scale wall installations.

Since then, I have almost entirely moved away from collage using found materials and have integrated these newer processes into the core of my practice. Now, most of my work begins as drawings that I re-create as vector files, then cut out in paper or vinyl using a plotter much like the one I had access to at Facebook. Using adhesive vinyl mainly produced for commercial sign making, I went from using commercially produced stickers to creating my own. My practice used to be entirely analog, but l've been learning new skills with programs like Adobe Illustrator. This has made me think in different ways and has been a fruitful challenge."