Jordan Scott is an award-winning Chicago based artist represented by prestigious art galleries nationwide. His mixed-media postage stamp artwork pays homage to his beliefs in the interconnectedness of the universe and is inspired by theories of the collective unconscious and his years of meditation practice. He received a degree in Religious Studies from Indiana University and a degree from the Chicago Photography Academy.
When I was young, my mother took me to a press proofing for a printed product advertisement. Looking into the glass loop, I was amazed to see that the seemingly solid colors were actually tiny individual dots. Sometime later, while visiting the Art Institute of Chicago, I encountered Georges Seurat’s, A Sunday on LA Grande Jatte, and was introduced to the technique of pointillism.
I often use, or reuse, materials outside their normal. Currently, I use cancelled postage stamps as my primary medium. Where did they originate? Who sent them? What letters did they carry? Each used and canceled postage stamp has a hidden history of its own. Each small stamp represents this unknown story and the expanded web that it was once connected to. My artwork touches on both the individual and the collective, on both the original sender of each correspondence and the society as a whole.
I am also influenced by theories of the collective unconscious and the interconnectedness of the universe and its correspondence to several schools of eastern thought and mysticism. The postage stamp pattern fields are my interpretation and reinvention of mandalas, or meditative microcosms. The resin finish, like liquid glass, helps to create and hold together this interconnectedness of the individual elements and at the same time heightens and helps to clarify and define their qualities. Like the ink dots I discovered under the loop, or Seurat’s paint spots, the layered stamps create a blended whole connecting all the unique and singular parts.
I often use, or reuse, materials outside their normal. Currently, I use cancelled postage stamps as my primary medium. Where did they originate? Who sent them? What letters did they carry? Each used and canceled postage stamp has a hidden history of its own. Each small stamp represents this unknown story and the expanded web that it was once connected to. My artwork touches on both the individual and the collective, on both the original sender of each correspondence and the society as a whole.
I am also influenced by theories of the collective unconscious and the interconnectedness of the universe and its correspondence to several schools of eastern thought and mysticism. The postage stamp pattern fields are my interpretation and reinvention of mandalas, or meditative microcosms. The resin finish, like liquid glass, helps to create and hold together this interconnectedness of the individual elements and at the same time heightens and helps to clarify and define their qualities. Like the ink dots I discovered under the loop, or Seurat’s paint spots, the layered stamps create a blended whole connecting all the unique and singular parts.
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Jordan Scott is a Chicago-based artist, photographer & writer.
His studio is in the Cornelia Arts Building
1800 West Cornelia Ave. Studio #201A
Chicago, IL 60657
His studio is in the Cornelia Arts Building
1800 West Cornelia Ave. Studio #201A
Chicago, IL 60657
To view Jordan Scott's photography: www.jordanscottphotography.com