Jordan Martin

I habitually wonder why. Unsurprisingly, I make art to encourage others to practice asking why, and its close associates, ’what if’, and ‘why not’.

I aspire for my art to destabilize fruitless habits of perception and unexamined beliefs. With art I enjoy the freedom to mess around with what one cannot easily say or do, both the beautiful and
the profane, and I invite others to see this. To that end I favor the jester’s craft of wrapping
serious things in humorous packages. I experiment with ways of making the familiar strange, and therefore new.

Concurrently I regularly engage with clay in the spirit of play. I like to surprise myself with it and making myself laugh feels like success.​​​

I invent absurd characters which embody lived or fantastical conundrums. I am the trickster, and these are my subjects. One character bucket excavator appendages. Monsters are no longer simply scary. Severed limbs lift severed flowers for us to regard. Many of my figures are multi-sided. Others sleep, dreaming of us into being.

Contact Jordan Martin at: jordanmart@gmail.com