Christopher Paul Jordan
Using large-scale murals, I impersonate the photojournalist—
cautiously mediating the viewer’s grasp of reality as I separate
narrative imagery from its context. I’m interested in media
infrastructure and its role in shaping what is knowable. Along the
surface of my paintings, distortions and compression artifacts
exploit observers’ preoccupation with the human figure. Methods
of digital intercession enable me to relocate the fourth wall;
using smartphone accessibility features, for example, to create
double-paintings, where the mobile camera becomes the portal
into “natural likeness.” At the hands of the user, virtual and
physical space end up folded together, and suddenly we are all
in the frame.

