When Nika Roza Danilova (@zolajesus) was a little girl, she and her brother would pretend they were Trinity and Neo, the characters in the sci-fi blockbuster “The Matrix.” No surprise then that the singer, who’s known as Zola Jesus, is piqued by everyday things that aren’t as mundane as they seem — from a scrawled bit of graffiti that reads “This life is a lie” to a rubber breathing tube snaked on a bed.
“That intrigues me, to try to find a really beautiful moment in a very plain, everyday experience,” she says. “I see shapes and geometry — things that aren’t usually that obvious.”
Photo by @zolajesus. Words by @music.