About Jessica Maia

I am an artist, writer, mystic, and entrepreneur. I started my business, Jupiter Soul, in 2016. I have been drawing and writing since childhood — they are lifelong passions of mine at the core of who I am. Visual art has always come naturally to me, and I have tried every medium I could get my hands on. I’ve specialized in drawing, lettering, printmaking, jewelry making, photography, design, collage, and woodworking. Writing is a personal hobby which has included writing essays, stories, poetry, screenwriting, and keeping a journal for over two decades. Mysticism became a passion later in life for me. I integrate my relationship with it into all of my work and it gives me the honor to share it with others in ways that art and writing do not.

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History

I enrolled in art school for three semesters before I was creatively drained, burned out, and lost my passion as a visual artist. I dropped out, and for the first time in my life, went years without creating anything. By July 2015, I had a bizarre experience. I lost my old sketchbooks and art supplies out of my car due to theft.

I was left with the shattered glass of my backseat window and an inexplicable mixture of emotions of losing something I took for granted: my artwork, and the hours of valuable time and skill I put into the pages of the sketchbooks that I lost forever. The grief that I felt over the loss of my artwork was a wake up call to build a new relationship with my artistry to compensate for what I lost.

As I began to explore new artistic mediums, the idea of Jupiter Soul was born a year later in June 2016. It’s an ongoing passion project of mine in my exploration and integration of the arts, writing, philosophy, and mysticism. Embodying Jupiter, the planet of expansion, Jupiter Soul began as a project to expand my creativity, knowledge, and to connect with others while doing it.

From 2015 to 2021, my creativity was on full blast as I developed my business, branding, website, and all of the art you see on my website. In 2019, I began selling my art for the first time in my local communities. In 2020, I turned my focus toward e-commerce and expanding my business. In 2021, I moved from New Jersey to Colorado, which officially marked a transition.

In April 2022, I felt like history repeated itself, as I had my artwork stolen again. My storage unit was broken into, and this time I lost valuable Jupiter Soul merchandise and art supplies. Because I had been through this before, I thought I would be on the same trajectory as last time, but it was significantly different this time around.

Life is strange to say the least, and losing something as personal as my artwork for a second time is something I’m still processing and recovering from. I choose to not be a victim of my circumstances, so I can figure out what is next for my creative trajectory and continue to grow my artistry and business.

As of 2024, Jupiter Soul and I have done a lot of growing, and we have come a long way since 2015. I’ve learned that my creativity is a cycle and have accepted that I’m back to being creativity drained and blocked. This blockage challenges me to up level my creativity and begin a new chapter like I did in 2015. The next chapter of Jupiter Soul is still unknown as I navigate the season of life and business that I’m currently in.

For now, Jupiter Soul and I aren’t going anywhere, but we are going through some changes.

What does Jupiter Soul mean?

Soul:

• emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance

• the spiritual part of a person that is believed to give life to the body and in many religions is believed to live forever

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