Jordan Eagles
Artist's Statement
I have been using blood in my work for almost a decade. Although my techniques and aesthetic are continuously evolving, the underlying themes remain constant and continue to inspire me in fresh directions. In this new series, I allow the forms and materiality to stand at the forefront, presenting an unbiased reflection of mortality, spirituality and infinity, while still offering the viewer space for a visceral and primal response.
Some say they see in the work the astral origins of life while others see gunshot wounds. Regardless, the use of a flesh-based material to explore something as seemingly intangible as the spirit imparts a profound balance. Blood, most often symbolizing physical death, is in fact a life force. By using and preserving blood from an expired source in a new, regenerative context, my works celebrate the rebirth process that I believe the body-spirit undergoes once life, as we know it, has ceased.
The resulting works become moments frozen in time, suggesting that our body-spirits exist in a multitude of physical and spiritual forms – continuums that transcend our individual lives only to be reborn as something different, something new, something that is part of who we already were.
