Artist's Statement



I'm not really sure just how I do what I do as I create. As I write or sculpt or paint, play an instrument or sing, I disappear, becoming whatever it is that is being creatively born. It is only in a sort of shimmering aftermath that I realize I have been absent, and like a whale emerging from the depths suddenly 'I am' once more.
I am sitting in a room. There is a window beside me, softened at its edges by curtains, and a breeze pulls through. There is a floor beneath my feet. Where have I been?

Then I look and see that the paper beneath my hands is no longer blank, or the room resonates with the music that has flown forth from the guitar I am holding. Words have crowded onto the page of my notebook like a gathering of gleeful old friends. Something I cannot fully explain, whose origins are a complete mystery, exists, where before it did not.


While I do not know how I do what I do, I deeply know why. Much of the world is in pain, and those of us in it feel, in various ways, the dissonance, as the pain reverberates through. Something is wrong with the way we regard the Earth. Something is broken as we treat each other so poorly, as we stagnate in hate, and as we are absorbed by fear. Something needs to change, as we are so bad to ourselves, as we succumb to doubt, isolation and anger.

As I disappear, I think I must be seeking a solution to some of these challenges, issues, and difficulties. What I bring back with me, in words or images or music, responds to the friction, loneliness, misunderstanding and hurt in the world. It questions the way things are, and suggests kindness, symbiosis, awareness and playfulness. It acknowledges what we may lose if we cannot change from our present course, but never fully deviates from the joy and brightness that is still possible.


- Jorie Jenkins



Friday, June 10, 2016

The Warrior : Kai'an



Kai'an the Master of Arrows is a deeply cerebral and strong individual living and training in the Bee city of New Che-Uin. He is advisor to Kalile B'Urendi, Ambassador of Men in the Miriconian Realm. As the lead defender of a city that has suffered many onslaughts through history, Kai'an's and his archers are among the most practiced and accurate in the Realm. Men who are accepted to train under Kai'an emerge as some of the finest target warriors, and they speak his praises far and wide.

Kai'an's elaborate armor was inspired by pieces I saw in the Cosplay collection of a handsome teenager I know.

Prints only, available through Fernie Brae Gallery
or at my Etsy site
$24


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