Aug 9, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 13 segments
In this episode I will discussing my paintings and my vision with Kenny Jordan. This will be an open discussion so everyone can join in. All donations for this month's group event will go toward…
Josh GreenHost
Kenny JordanGuestPamGuest
okay so here's my website and on it i have a portfolio of my um art so far all the all the major shows i put together uh my thesis show from alpha was called hollow myth and i had it at the fossick nelson gallery and um in this show I'm trained in the classical painting technique.
I was really thinking about the tradition of classical painting, of realist painting in the West, and how it's been used to depict myths, represent ideologies, major ideologies.
And so it's been used to perpetuate and even for propaganda purposes, right? So what I did is I imagined kind of dissolving all the content out of this realism and just looking at it in its bits and pieces how it works.
The statement I had is I believe that the conflicts which are happening within me in my search for meaning are a reflection of what is happening in our culture on a larger scale, a balance between the bleakness of science and its implicit philosophies of atheism, nihilism, and determinism, and alternatively to the irrational conformity to my inherited myths, Christianity, capitalism, liberalism.
So I create images, visual analogs of my uncertainty and the meaning of Western oil painting, the medium that depicted and propagated the great myths of the past.
So it has to do with kind of a moment in history where we're very uncertain about who we are, if we still believe in any of these things, what good are these things, and especially conflicting with science, right? How do our myths and beliefs hold up to science? How can they survive science? But science breaks everything down, but it doesn't offer a new synthesis of how to continue forward, how to create order, how to create social harmony, morals to live by and things like that.
Science is just very objective and about measurement, and it's essentially nihilistic.
like what we see in quantum physics, many people are making many wild interpretations of what it could mean, but it is inherently meaningless.
And also science and a lot of culture is promoting determinism, that we don't have free will, that we don't have a choice, that we are meat machines and any problems that we have can be regulated with uh medicines and things like that while modern medicine is definitely a blessing and it has fixed a lot of problems that's not the whole picture obviously i think anyone who's done that path knows obviously that's not the whole thing the subjective side of humanity has to be dealt with So these paintings kind of explore that.
And then I painted it like a still life, removing all the content from it and just looking at it as construction and projection of the mind.
okay so here's my website and on it i have a portfolio of my um art so far all the all the major shows i put together uh my thesis show from alpha was called hollow myth and i had it at the fossick nelson gallery and um in this show I'm trained in the classical painting technique.
I was really thinking about the tradition of classical painting, of realist painting in the West, and how it's been used to depict myths, represent ideologies, major ideologies.
And so it's been used to perpetuate and even for propaganda purposes, right? So what I did is I imagined kind of dissolving all the content out of this realism and just looking at it in its bits and pieces how it works.
The statement I had is I believe that the conflicts which are happening within me in my search for meaning are a reflection of what is happening in our culture on a larger scale, a balance between the bleakness of science and its implicit philosophies of atheism, nihilism, and determinism, and alternatively to the irrational conformity to my inherited myths, Christianity, capitalism, liberalism.
So I create images, visual analogs of my uncertainty and the meaning of Western oil painting, the medium that depicted and propagated the great myths of the past.
So it has to do with kind of a moment in history where we're very uncertain about who we are, if we still believe in any of these things, what good are these things, and especially conflicting with science, right? How do our myths and beliefs hold up to science? How can they survive science? But science breaks everything down, but it doesn't offer a new synthesis of how to continue forward, how to create order, how to create social harmony, morals to live by and things like that.
Science is just very objective and about measurement, and it's essentially nihilistic.
like what we see in quantum physics, many people are making many wild interpretations of what it could mean, but it is inherently meaningless.
And also science and a lot of culture is promoting determinism, that we don't have free will, that we don't have a choice, that we are meat machines and any problems that we have can be regulated with uh medicines and things like that while modern medicine is definitely a blessing and it has fixed a lot of problems that's not the whole picture obviously i think anyone who's done that path knows obviously that's not the whole thing the subjective side of humanity has to be dealt with So these paintings kind of explore that.
And then I painted it like a still life, removing all the content from it and just looking at it as construction and projection of the mind.
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