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Spirit, Art, And Care, Jordan Geiger
Spirit, Art, And Care, Jordan Geiger
MFA in Visual Art
In textiles, installations, and interactive performances, I explore how spiritual practice becomes art practice. My experiences as a hospice volunteer, musician, and Buddhist inform my work’s focus on contemplating impermanence as a path to spiritual transformation. Artmaking is a vehicle for exploring the nature of my reality, and both communicating what I find and sharing the path itself. I take inspiration from mystic/artists such as Hilma af Klint, Sengai Gibon, and Agnes Martin, who have sought to expound the path of awakening in artistic form.
In content as well as process, my work explores notions of empathy, awareness, ceremony, and …