“Goodnight”
Concept | Once the lights go off and the night begins to creep in, a child’s bedroom transforms from familiar and playful into a space where every creak of a floorboard or flash of a light stirs the imagination and lets nightmares run wild. Now, I can chuckle at the things I once found menacing, all the things that lurked in the closet or under the bed, once believed to be fingers reaching out to grab. Certain nightmares seem to stick with me stronger than a memory of something that actually happened. I use the imagery from my scary bedroom to create forms and growths that break through the cushions and comfort of a bed and begin to crawl from a nightmare into reality, while being simultaneously very creepy but very goofy and ridiculous.
Bio | Jordan uses the landscapes of our memories and the natural world as a canvas to invite new forms to grow and exist, pushing the everyday into a fantasyland of her own. Natural processes of growth, such as fungus and mold, are apparent inspirations in the shapes Jordan creates. An element of humor is important and the worlds she creates invite the viewer to take a second to laugh at themselves for a moment.