Jordan Eagles
Animal - Spirit - Machine
June 21 through July 15, 2007

Hartford, CT— Real Art Ways presents Jordan Eagles' Animal - Spirit - Machine, opening Thursday, June 21 during Creative Cocktail Hour, from 6-9pm. Creative Cocktail Hour is $8 for the general public, and free for Real Art Ways members.

Jordan Eagles has been working with leftover blood from slaughterhouses for a decade. Blood, most often symbolizing physical death, is in fact the fluid of life. By using and preserving blood from an expired source in a new, regenerative context, Eagle’s work celebrates the material rebirth process that the body-spirit undergoes once life, as we know it, has ceased.

In the presence of light, the translucency of the blood is revealed under and between multiple layers of clear resins. (An additional UV coating is applied to each piece to ensure the archival life of the organic material). The multi-dimensionality of each piece retains and vibrates the light, illuminating pools of reds/blacks and proteins with sealed-in air bubbles; simultaneously one could be viewing microscopic, cellular details as well as large scale photographic images of planets.


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