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Jordan Marshall
JORDAN MARSHALL
Budding: Self-Portrait - SOLD
Blossoming: Portrait of my Mother
Blooming: Portrait of my Grandmother - SOLD
Oil on Panel
36" x 36" each
$1,200 each
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As a child, my mother taught me the names of birds and flowers, perhaps a trait inherited from my grandmother who lived next door to us among her irises and roses. Saturday mornings spent with our hands in the dirt, planting and tending to silently growing things, cultivated a love for these delicate creations and their ability to communicate. Flowers became a language, the means by which I could understand my own experiences and memories.
Victorian Floriography, an age-old system of correspondence, designates specific meanings to each flower, creating encoded messages of light, love, and wisdom. Through the language of floriography, these oil paintings explore the life and experiences of my mother, grandmother, and myself. Based on interviews and my own recollection of my childhood, each bloom was carefully chosen to represent a characteristic or memory that bears significance on our individual lives and the events that have shaped our family history.
The flowers in my series hold grief, generosity, devotion, and hope, among many other meanings, within their graceful and resilient petals. In painting the stories of the beloved women in my life, my work becomes tied not just to my own experience but to the generations that have come before me, molding and shaping a legacy that will last even when memory falls short and flowers fade.
-Jordan Marshall
Budding: Self-Portrait
Oil on Panel
36" x 36"
$1,200
SOLD
Blossoming: A Portrait of my Mother
Oil on Panel
36" x 36"
$1,200
Blooming: A Portrait of my Grandmother
Oil on Panel
36" x 36"
$1,200
SOLD