Artist's Biography

               

Alexa Nicole Jellema, more commonly known as Lex, was born on November 22^nd, 1998, in Williston Park, a suburb on Long Island. As a child, she enjoyed singing, writing, and drawing,  and in the eighth grade she entered the English Scholars Program at Herricks Middle School and auditioned for the school’s production of Seussical: the Musical, in which she had a small role. In the ninth grade, she enrolled in the Student Television Arts Company (STAC), the gifted arts program at Herricks High School. Since then, she has explored film-making and has made several short silent films, as well as participated in the school play, Our Town.

                Lex spends her spare time reading and watching copious amounts of Netflix, as well as braiding her hair in different ways over and over again and hanging out with her friends occasionally like a normal fourteen-year-old girl. Someday, she dreams to finally discover her purpose in life, because she personally believes in some elements of destiny, karma, and wishful thinking and she will not let anything stop her from being happy. As an INFJ on the Myers Briggs scale, she is deeply idealistic, but as an Enneagram Type 9 wing 1, she tends to go with the flow more or less.

                Art has always been a way for Lex to free herself from whatever frustrated or saddened her, and she hopes to do that for other people, someday.

Them Heavy People verse:

They hold my head underwater and I can't breathe,

The cold, it hurts, but it seems to complete me,

I stop fighting and their hands let go,

I rise to the top and the sun makes my face glow.