JJ of Reine de Blanc Brand ( pronounced Ren or Rain ) is a Manhattan metalsmith and artist, born and raised in the Delaware Water Gap area of Northwest NJ. She studied photography, painting, and metalsmithing at Savannah College of Art & Design and Montclair State University. Her work is heavily influenced by her upbringing in the rural surroundings in nature and by her close family members working in the fields of science and space technology. She has been a clairvoyant, psychic, empath, and experiencer of all things strange for her entire life, with dreams being an integral part of all that she does.