Reflector comprises five, large-scale oil-on-linen paintings. They are variously shaped, and consist of two interrelated parts, like bodies embracing whilst moving through space, easily bringing to mind an improvised dance—figures in motion, relating, communicating, combining. Both the stained, intense color, and the shapes are dynamic. Jorden reacts moment to moment during the process of making each painting, improvising and responding along the way. Paint in this case is revealed to be the trace of actions taken on the material support, fluid and organic. This is in clear contrast to the other order of dynamism—the clear-cut shapes of each part of each diptych: profiles that offer a skewed geometry, rather than a static symmetry. Read More