Entangled Thicket
6’2”, 74” x 11’6”, 138” x 7’2”, 86”
Limestone, Concrete, Steel, Native Grasses, Wildflowers
2020
2020 Fellowship Artist
Artist Statement
Using sculpture, creative writing, video, and installation, my recent work focuses on affect, narrative, and architecture. Using creative writing as a way to conceive of new artworks, I work through the senses and intimacy. My works respond to their exhibition site and explore the layers of experience for the viewer, trying to remove intellectual distance and center the body. Explorations of queerness, non-binary gender, and the body arise with questions around architecture, social dynamics, nature, and place. If you were to file my work in a library search engine, effective keywords would include: speculative fiction, the occult, ecology, learning through experience, sexuality, personal relationships, new forms of society, chaos, desire, mental health, public health, spiritual architecture, land art, climate change, folk & craft traditions, paganism, architecture, ghosts, out-of-body-experience, feelings, posthumanism, anti-capitalism, trans-humanism, cross-species embodiment, fantasy.
This sculpture is made of concrete, steel, and locally mined limestone from the St. Croix Valley. It was inspired by the British Surrealist painter and poet Ithell Colquhoun, who lived in Cornwall where structures built around natural cold water springs, called “wells”, were used in pre-Christian times for rituals of healing. These partially-buried “ha-ha” walls are used in traditional English landscape architecture. “Entangled Thicket” aims to create a space for meeting, rest, and reflection, thinking about the public commons and local ecologies, as well as spirituality.
Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik
Born: Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1988
Resides: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Education
Virginia Commonwealth University, MFA, Sculpture + Extended Media, 2018
Concordia University, BFA, Intermedia, 2012