If only for a moment, I hope to inspire our audience to pause — to look deep within each piece, past the frame, the paint, the numbers, the letters, past the sand, the shells, the metal; look deep, at an itty bitty planet.The inhabitants don’t much care for us, but the watch us, and imitate.

Walking under the Brooklyn Bridge at low tide, I collect my pirate booty — treasures and trash — picking up shells, seeing faces, families, having visions of them walking in space, getting lost in miniature worlds that the tide strands on the banks of the East River.And then, reaching up, I make my escape over the great wall.

Jaimie Walker was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1973. She received her BFA in 1998 from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and worked with TBWA/Chiat/Day before launching her own graphic design and styling practice.

Raised in a military family, Jaimie’s early life was full of movement, from the East Coast of the US to Germany, to California, and Hawaii.Her life and work are a patchwork of the American experience.