Eickholt Gallery :: Jordan EaglesThe Body-Spirit Connection
What is the soul? Where do our souls come from? Are our souls bound to our flesh? How do our souls interact with other living entities? Where do our souls go once our physical bodies perish? These are the fundamental questions that inspire Jordan Eagles’ work.
Eagles’ pieces are multidimensional visualizations designed to strike an aesthetic and emotional balance between the physical and the intangible. In his latest series, “The Body-Spirit Connection,” Eagles explores existence, rebirth, our connections with one another, and the possibility that our souls are infinite.
Blood, a primitive artistic medium, is a key ingredient in Eagles’ work. By combining it with contemporary materials such as acrylics, resin and metallic powders, Eagles fuses the old and the new, the flesh and the spirit, the body and the soul, the dead and the living, the morbid and the sublime. In his work, blood, essential to life but most often symbolizing physical death, takes on a new form in a new context. Eagles’ method replicates the “rebirth” process he believes the body-spirit undergoes once a human life has ended. His resulting works are a visual representation that our body-spirits exist in a multitude of physical and spiritual forms--continuums that transcend our individual lives only to be reborn as something different, something new, something that is part of who we already were.See the New York Times article about Jordan and his art
