Andrea Jones, I?, ink on paper, 7" x7"

American, b. 1984, playing from Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Andrea Jones began painting as soon as she was old enough to hold a paintbrush. She also sculpts, folds origami, takes photos, welds random pieces of steel together, creates mixed-media functional artwork, and, as she puts it, "glues things to stuff."

She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design and is self-employed in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Visit her website at AJ-GD.com.

Thoughts on the Telephone process

I listened to the words of a poet from New York City; I heard her voice, her pauses, the sounds of her mouth forming words and the breathiness with which they were delivered; she asked me to look inward and I responded with the question, Who am I?