Jax Deluca
Jan 28, 2008
I feel like maybe I have hit the jackpot. Stumbling across a multi-faceted artist like Jax Deluca is not something that happens often, especially late on a weekend night. This little lady creates sounds for her films and film for her sounds, photographs in her spare time and sends original artwork out with every CD that she sells, She must have heard the same hard work speech growing up that we got.
Her myspace page is a bit deceiving, because you have to look past the home page and take in her images, read her blogs and peruse her musical influences to get a grasp on her convictions. The music itself is pure sound effects and experimental noise formed for certain venues out of specific inspiration and with a select box of instruments. It may seem out of place at first listen but pairs nicely with her unusual vision for film content.
Within a two plus minute film produced for Squeaky Wheel, Jax had successfully developed one hell of a creepy and romantic super 8 flick equipped with philosophical ramblings. It begins with ghost imagery that haunts the screen and flickers wildly enough to entice the audience into studying the movements. Static clouds the picture and contributes to the subliminal sounds while also acting as a transition element. Phrases emerge in the sequence, defining Jax’s thoughts on living, and as a clever forethought, were configured the same as dictionary definitions.
Jax has adapted to using Buffalo as her back drop; it’s architecture and aged appearance mesh well with her goth sensibility. I feel that it is worthy to mention that she has an impressive amount of artistic collaborations under her belt, discrediting the shy artist stereotype. She is unapologetically unabashed with her work – having once express-mailed 10,000 maggots from Michigan for her Beyond/In Western New York project to be used in conjunction with captured live spiders, animal bones and assorted rotting flesh. Jax Deluca is amazingly versatile and unable to be confined to one medium, her vision is too vast.
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