Meditation: The World's Greatest Gothic Mansion

Visions: Imitation of Christ

Dear Friends,

If anyone knows that fashion week has arrived here in New York, it's on the go, overworked me. Though I'm running on total empty after over a week of 16hour work days and nights, Tara Subkoff's Imitation of Christ presentation at Milk Studios today gave me quite a bit of extra steam. Here's a look at what got me going.

xxcc,

Jordan

For more from this presentation and others from Milk Studios and the Standard this season, take a peak at M.A.C. and Milk's live coverage website.

Meditation: New geometry for the new year

I have been writing sestinas with my friend Emma Sartwell for the past year and a half. This time around Emma assigned me six end words. I created the sestina along with geometric illustrations that accompany each line. The illustrations echo the dynamic of the situation at stake in the poem. Please stay tuned for more information on my first poetry book: A Glass Three.

xxcc

Jordan

94 page zine coming february 2011

xxcc, Jordan

visions: solid daze

i learned the name of this show at an east village bar, where over the music i thought i heard "solid daze." i guess salad days is pretty good too. see you thursday!

xxcc

Jordan

Meditation: Planning the Spectrum part II

be there.

Meditation: Planning the Spectrum

the spectrum is soon awakening

10 14 10

untitled diagram

9x12"

Meditation: The Spectrum of Awakening

looking to the past to get inspired... one image search at a time.

xxcc

jordan

journey: welcome home

venice, ca

08 26 2010

meditation: surveying the land

i leave deer valley tomorrow. though there have been moments of interruption, the past three weeks have been the closest i have come to solitude. i have spent today taking inventory of my belongings - those i've brought with me, those i've collected and those i've created. here are some of the things i've encountered.

xxcc

jordan

"Sky Opening"

digital photograph

"Insignificance"

digital collage

"Pearl Salt Moon"

assemblage

beveled mirror, opal varnish, found salt crystals, found stones

packing up the loft

deer valley, ut

08 21 2010

meditation: natural selection vol. 1

coming soon!

xxcc

journey: the ancient ocean

Since July 31st, I had my first encounter with company this week. Monday afternoon Christelle, Katerina and I drove almost 9 hours in total to see the great earthwork - Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. We had to take absolute backroads, putting along terrain that was constantly changing. We got lost several times on the way to the Jetty, and as a result saw the most incredible landscape of the Great Salt Lake, or as we called it - the Ancient Ocean. Moving from pavement to gravel to dirt, we wound our way through fields and fields, eventually making it to Rozel Point - a cove of the Ancient Ocean just before the Spiral Jetty. The terrain there was otherworldly - made of salt, air bubbles and animal tracks that outweighed the three of us put together. I felt as though I was on the astral plane - moonwalking over the air bubbles into the infinite unknown. The salt bed was so vast and so flat you couldn't make out where the lake began at all. The terrain became even more cosmic when we finally found the Jetty. The salt was pink and crystalline under my feet. I picked up large flats of salt to harvest at home as well as small rocks from the middle of the spiral. At this time, the Jetty is not submerged. The salt bed is so vast around it that you can walk almost a mile into the lake beyond the Jetty, and can cut between spirals on salty ground. In fact, beyond the Jetty was where I realized the weight of this experience. I looked out onto this field of pink to the distance where grey mountains rose from the lake like islands. Beyond the pink was a glassy surface that sparkled, silvery and blue. I looked behind me at Christelle and Katerina scattered along the Jetty, and felt so in love with the experience I was having. Breaking the glass a crane rose out of the water with silvery grace, and I began to cry at the beauty I couldn't believe I was seeing. Soon a few other cranes came to meet it. We were alone with the jetty and the cranes as the sun went down. Driving back in darkness I realized I was leaving the most peaceful place I had ever been.

xxcc

Jordan

The Spiral Jetty

Golden Spike National Historic Site

Corrine, UT

08 16 2010