about
Jordan Mitchell works in the space between fracture and becoming. Through clay, mirror, sound, and assemblage, he traces the body’s shifting edges (where what is broken hums with new form).materials remember every touch, every collapse; surfaces breathe, resist, and scar like living skin. In these prosthetic architectures, absence turns luminous, difference becomes motion. The work listens to what remains, to the uncanny murmurs of what once was whole. Mitchell’s practice is both excavation and offering: a refiguring of normalcy through tenderness, rupture, and repair—a language of matter that speaks to empathy, persistence, and the possibility of reimagined presence.
artist statement
My work moves through clay, mirror, sound, and image to explore the porous boundaries of the body (where absence becomes form and fracture turns to motion). I listen to materials as they resist and remember; material specificity carries every touch, every collapse, like skin that has lived. Through prosthetic forms and uncanny reflections, I search for tenderness inside what is broken, and freedom within imperfection. Outsiderness and alien affect shape how I make and how I see: not as lack, but as opening. Each work becomes a gesture toward empathy, an unfolding of presence through difference and continual becoming.
