Jax Basil Brown
I am drawn to rot, rupture, and renewal, honest instincts in a world organized around destruction and dominance.
Sometimes I imagine a strange underdog superhero:
Rot Girl! Composting millennia of grief, shit, and systems of domination into something fertile again.
I hope my work offers you permission to unravel a little: to grieve, decay, evolve alongside an ailing world and trust breakdown as a form of becoming.
Please use the underlined words to click on each gallery below..
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Self Portraits, Ongoing Series
Inspired by Frida, “I paint self portraits.. because I am the person I know best.”
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Chakra Series
My interpretation of the energy centers: Root, Creation, Power, Heart, Voice, Insight & Divinity
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Chairs
..on the architecture of control and craft, of perfection handed down in sawdust
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Bogart is Ate
Created for my dear youngest nephew, (who’s no longer ate)
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America Running on War
Big war machine
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Regenerative Housing
Insomuch as “art is life”, my
MOST CREATIVE LIFE’S WORK
circles around how I live, where I live, who else lives there & how many people can come in from the cold
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Blood of Life
Made from my reproductive blood as I am rising as a woman, as a human - to claim where I’ve gone, express who I am, and codify what I‘m made of
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Mango Pits in Boricua
Parcelas Hill Brothers, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Jax Basil Brown
Live
