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Jessie Askinazi is a New York City and South Florida-based multidisciplinary creative.

She works across photography, poetry, performance, mixed media, curatorial projects, and creative direction. Her work inhabits the space between conscious and unconscious states, revealing hidden emotional landscapes. Through oneiric and dreampunk frameworks, she interrogates persona and self-limiting perceptions, opening pathways toward transformation.

Jessie’s practice unfolds through an ongoing dialogue with the arts and letters, rejecting straightforward storytelling in favor of experimental collage—where meaning emerges through fragmentation rather than linear narrative..

She received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Interdisciplinary Studies from Florida Atlantic University, with a primary concentration in English and secondary concentrations in Communications and Gender Studies. She graduated summa cum laude and served as Co–Editor-in-Chief of the university’s literary magazine, Coastlines.

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01. sonic voyager with an ever-growing archive of spotify playlists. ˙ᵕ˙ especially loves shoegaze, dreampop, post-punk, goth rock, hyperpop, j-pop/rock, k-pop, folk, and neo-soul.

02. celluloid junkie, equally at home on the criterion channel or in a local independent theater. influenced by a wide range of filmmakers and movements & draws particular inspiration from arthouse, surrealism, dogma 95, the french new wave, minimalism, and italian giallo cinema. check out her letterboxd.

03. style blends kawaii, j-fashion, harajuku culture, and asian character design with avant-garde, conceptual fashion and couture. influenced by the manga and anime NANA, my aesthetic exists at the intersection of femininity and alternative punk. also loves french type/storefronts (and the language).

04. collects: costume jewelry, asian plushies and figures, crystals and minerals, art books, stickers, objets d’art from her travels, and treasures from vintage shops, flea markets, and independent makers. •ﻌ•

05. loves: cats, dogs, bows, tamagotchi, rainbows, gardens, make-up, clowns, traveling alone, webcore aesthetics, wallpaper, big sunglasses, pee-wee herman, intricate korean nail art, french pastries, drag queens, oracle decks, dome homes, and the east village in NYC.

06. astro: leo sun, gemini rising, sagitarrius moon, venus in leo, mars in scorpio

07. MBPTI: ENFP

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• animal: flamingo, kittehs

• anime: spirited away, my neighbor totoro, paprika, angel’s egg, your name.

• artist: carravagio, yoshitomo nara, audrey kawasaki, jenny holzer, barbara kruger, mike kelley

• bakery: boulangerie utopie, proof, barley time, hive

• book store: unnameable books, dashwood books

• character: my melody, peko-chan, usahana, sylveon, violetchi

• color: pink

• comedian: maria bamford, norm macdonald, chris fleming, patti harrison

• crystal: himalayan quartz with chlorite inclusions

• documentary: benjamin smoke, paris is burning, daguerréotypes, touch the sound

• fashion brands: alexander mcqueen, yohji yamamoto, simone rocha, vivienne westwood, comme des garçons, hashtag ddd

• fiction book: the waves- virginia woolf, geek love-katherine dunn

• flower: cherry blossom

• food: sushi

• holiday: halloween!

• illustrator: sunone bird, yurie sekiya, iscreamcolour

• movie: valerie and her week of wonders, everything by david lynch

• nonfiction book: the chronology of water- lidia yuknavitch, bandit-molly brodak, rebel girl: my life as a feminist punk- kathleen hanna

• perfume: anotinette poisson "bien aimée"

• photographer: francesca woodman, ellen rogers, diane arbus, mary ellen mark, man ray, ralph eugene meatyard

• place: canal st. martin (paris), washington square park (nyc), provence (france), museu arqueológico do carmo (lisbon)

• poetry collection: ariel- sylvia plath, culture of one- alice notley, manhater-danielle pafunda

• record: souvlaki- slowdive

• restaurant: mokonuts, kanoyama, black walnut, chamma mama, b&h dairy, soba-ya, mai kai

• season: spring

• shop: the broken arm, poemo, about glamour, landline, tokio 7, john derian, astier de villatte, axs design

• short story book: her body and other parties- carmen maria machado, no one belongs here more than you- miranda july

• snack: taro boba

• song: bachelorette- björk

• toy series: skull panda, nommi, baby three, maymei, yooki

• tv series: my so-called life, twin peaks, fleabag, curb your enthusiasm, true detective season 1, arrested development