“In A Thousand Feets, Jazel continues her love affair with food and photography through her autobiographic explorations of the story-telling faculties of photo collage. From reconstructions of meals to frenetic scenes of multi-limbed monsters running amok, she unpacks a travel bag of memory and reverie from a journey of the gut—that which digests our food and that which we call the organ of our intuition. Millipede cut-outs populate her compositions that resemble gastronomic plates, labyrinthine train maps, and playful illustrations both familiar and fantastic. They are made from a photographic archive of meals and moments taken from her daily trips within the maze of Yokohama. As in the locomotive millipede that weaves through the forest floor in search of sustenance, Jazel scoured the city for inspiration, traversing on foot and on trains through its districts, streets, restaurants, and diners, even tunneling down its deeper subterranean narratives—including the 1920 incident that inspired the title. Much like the millipede’s first thousand steps on the shore, she sets herself loose, wide-eyed and open to the strange, the new, and the unexpected. Here, in her playful curiosity and hunger for discovery, she beckons us to get lost with her—to wander, to find, and then to be found.”

– An excerpt from the exhibition text written by Russ Ligtas