Jordan Sheridan

I imagine the maternal experience as an enveloping, polymorphous mass that is ever-stretching, fracturing, and shifting. My work documents and aestheticizes my personal experience as a mother, the fracturing of my identity, my endless and often invisible labor and care for my children, and the time conflict between my work as an artist and my work as a mother. Through painting and installation, I communicate my paradox of feeling both overwhelmed and spellbound as a mother, of reconnecting the fragmented pieces of my identity while the boundaries between myself and my children are often blurred. The crocheted installation is an extension of my painting practice with its own unique and deliberate mark-making and form; its woven structure situates a viewer within my position and identity as the mother and its paradoxical existence between beauty and chaos.