I would get old PJs from the thrift store and write poems on them. I was really young, learning how to create developing a vocabulary, experiencing a lot, and writing it down. Jess's decidedly non-linear route from Birmingham to North Carolina by way of Mobile suggests a more circular approach to life and art. Jess is a recycler. Her journals become poetry, and her poems find their way into her performance pieces.
Nothing lasts forever.
I find it comical, this concern for archivalness. I don't care for my own work like that as long as it's relevant. I keep my art things in polyethylene bags. Who knows what will become of them. Other than that, I don't go out of my way.