William Sarradet speaks with North Texas artist Jess Tedder about her nonlinear path as an artist and how her work as a flight attendant fuels her practice.

“[Ajijic, Mexico, where I was in a monthlong artist residency] is where the wheels started turning, and I thought, ‘I think I can make a career out of this. It's possible to be an artist, it's possible to travel, it's possible to explore the world...’ It inspired me knowing that being at a desk job wasn't the only way to live, which, for a while there, I thought it was because financial stability is very important for me, and that desk job gave me that, but my soul was pretty much dead.”

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