Jermaine "jET" Carter's interdisciplinary prac-

Carter's worldbuilding is also a response to

tice serves as a portal into the "jETCO" uni-

erasure-of education, history, and artistic tra-

verse-a richly layered, archival world that mir-

ditions. His character, "jET," serves as both a

rors our own through allegory, artifact, and visual narrator and a time-traveling archivist,

narrative collage. His work functions as a form carrying conversations about power, struggle,

of worldbuilding, where lost stories are pre-

and absurdity through the lens of cartoon

served through tangible remnants: paintings,

optics.