I’m Jordan Maya Brown, a 22-year-old multimedia artist creative from Los Angeles. My work spans analog and digital photography, filmmaking, writing, painting, and drawings. All of my work feels one with me, hard to fully measure or discuss, but I’m fascinated with the everyday world cast with shadow, new colorations, and capturing the repetitive motions of life. With my paintings, I’m drawn to contemporary artists like Gerhard Richter and Willem de Kooning and try to capture the unseeable colored layer that stands between me and the world. It melts and mixes and settles and moves and only holds still for a picture frame or wooden canvas. I photograph moments in my life that don’t seem to let me go, that tug at a place inside of me that irks, photos that seem almost immoral to leave unattended. With my writing, I start from a place of bewilderment, enticing fascination for what I’m only dancing around to describe, and get only inches closer to what I actually see. I write from a creative place of misunderstanding to being enveloped in a new discovery. As a filmmaker, I tell stories that won’t let go of my attention and aim to share my enthusiasm on a person, subject, or idea that keeps holding on.

I find home in the desert, I’ve grown with the lightly populated sprawling cacti and know how the rocks move, even from a young age. At 12 I wrote a poem on a Joshua Tree landscape:

“I notice the smallest details in life/like I notice the smallest plant or animal in the shadow of the human eye/I am a believer of the invisible creatures/who live beyond what other people/see/I sit/and soak up everything about the world/around me.”

I see myself as a part of a changing landscape and capture how the scorching heat blisters and creases the environment.

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