jes kalled

artist statement:

Though film has always been the first love, I’ve had a long relationship with digital photography and video, in-step with its flexibility (perhaps its ability to absorb an attempt, and make another attempt right after, alongside the first or the second, or in relationship to them both). Overwhelmed with the infinity of this practice—the illusion of immortality that working with digital images can illicit, I came to a point when I inadvertently sought a medium that felt closer to the way my body works: slow, finite, and vulnerable to almost everything.

there is a selection of film photography from the last two years. The collection is both a central viewing point, and a scattered arc; blurring the self/gaze with place, perhaps allowing them to be so. Though each photo is its own world, and belongs to geographies that are physically distant from one another, the photography also belongs to a larger, ambient whole, that is not violently separate. Behind the photo, or beyond the photo, there is a larger context that we don’t see within the frame, but feel. Similarly, a whole can appear partial, incomplete, moving, and changed, perhaps because we (and our perceptions) can appear partial, incomplete, moving, and changed. Unlike the photograph, we are never stationary. Here, there is a gap, or, an incongruence. One we must remain with.

All film photography is sized at 33.13 x 21.96 cm. (13 x 8 in.) Printed on fine art archival paper, (giclée). Each piece is priced respectively.

To purchase a piece from there

For purchases, inquires, and requests, please contact me at jeskalled@gmail.com. This is a limited edition selection, so there is only one of each artwork. Purchasing originals is on a first come first serve basis, but I am open to special requests and circumstances, especially for mutual aid purposes. Don’t hesitate to contact me.

Every order is a pre-order, and shipping prices will depend on your location. I will likely be collaborating with two fine art printers, one in Tokyo (see art from: A year of forgetting the pines), and one in “the u.s.” This will lower shipping costs significantly for those purchasing from those geographies. Know that purchasing my art supports my life directly, and makes it possible to live and create. Thank you for being here.

— jes

This is \ from where, we loved (2018)

25.4 x. 33.83 cm 10 x 13 in.

150.00

This piece exists on its own: pulled from a different frame of mind in 2018, having gradually come into this shape. Its final form is a mixed mediums fine art print on archival paper. The original components are made of oil paint and pen on paper, which were then scanned together and played with digitally; texture arrived, and has been left as is. This is \ from where, we loved (2018) was featured in my recent Swallow entry, Beneath the table. It was painted in 2018 around the time when N told me that “A window is an opening, and also a frame.”