KCJ Szwedzinski was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but moved frequently up and down the Eastern seaboard growing up. As an interdisciplinary artist, Szwedzinski’s work addresses perception, legacy, and belief as recurring themes. As a form of artistic autoethnography, she uses found materials and glass elements to create work that considers not only what we remember and believe, but how and follows narrative threads as they traverse time and place. With an interest in how people form belief, her work considers constructed systems that range from the sacred to the mundane including religion, consumerism, family ties, and politics. Within that framework she looks at the tension that exists between the dogma and the lived experience.