Jovi Schnell’s nomadic adventures began in the Ozark hills in Arkansas and eventually led her to Amsterdam, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Her colorful wall works, paintings, drawings, and cut-outs often fuse the organic and the mechanical, inventing playful networks of fantastical functioning that integrate emblematic forms of nature, technology, and humanity. Mythic tales, spiritual icons, evolutionary biology, discoveries of the universe, poetry, history, and ecology are just some of the few topics that trigger insights and narratives in her work. In 2010 Schnell also began creating site-specific large-scale commissioned works for the public realm.