“We followed wherever the Chinese diaspora [of my mother’s family] planted roots,” they say, which brought the two everywhere from Alberta, Canada, where Snow was born, to Seattle, Washington, where they immigrated."
[8] In addition to their writing and directing work, Snow has also been a producer on narrative and documentary short films centering marginalized perspectives in genres ranging from drama, fantasy, dark comedy, romance and horror.
The film proceeds through four vignettes, each of which is framed by a particular element: fire, for Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu; water, for Isa Borgeson; wind, for Kayla Brïet; and earth, for Wanping Oshiro [and her son], Kit Yan.
[24] Diane Fujino, a professor in the Asian American Studies Department at University of Santa Barbara said during Jess' residency that "they work through an art practice that rests on principles of collaboration and solidarity,” she said.
“Snow is... interested in questions of how we create emancipatory futures.”[25] Scholar of race and empire, Dean Saranillio, describes how Jess "plants the seeds for genuine security and sanctuary while being deeply mindful of the Indigenous lands on which such dreaming takes place...
"[4] “As someone with a stutter who struggled a lot with speaking,” Snow said, “I was drawn to murals because of the possibilities of giving the most marginalized in society the permission to become three stories tall.
Snow completed a community mural featuring prison abolitionist, Ruth Wilson Gilmore in New Haven, CT on the wall of Possible Futures Books.
Snow completed "We Always Had Wings," a community mural project in downtown Los Angeles featuring migration of the endangered Yellow-billed cuckoo and portraits of 15 migrant girls at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex.
"O Wind, Take Me to My Country" is a mural at the Art Bar Gallery in Kingston, NY on a three-story wall for the 7th Annual O+ Festival.
The book "[centers] on an immigrant family that descends from migrating birds, which Myers called “surreal and beautiful and true in the way that myths and legends can intertwine with our lived experiences.”[35] Snow illustrated The Ocean Calls, published in 2020 by Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, written by Tina Cho, "featuring a Korean girl and her haenyeo (free diving) grandmother about intergenerational bonds, finding courage in the face of fear, and connecting with our natural world.