Jordan Kim

FoundandRewoundArt

Mount Hood, OR

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I’m an artist, a mama and a perpetual student of the school of life. Oh and I LOVE paper. So I tend to use a lot of magazines, junk mail and scrap paper as the medium for my mixed media collages. In high school I started using “junk” to make art because I didn’t have a budget for art supplies. I’ve continued with this medium because I like the challenge of using one image to create another. This technique is also a way to combine my love of art with my beliefs in resource conservation.

I have always loved to create and art has tugged at my heart since I was very very little. I have been inspired and influenced by many amazing creatives, but none more so than the work of Mother Nature. The amazing patterns, systems, creatures, designs of the natural world are unparalleled in my mind. So when I reached college and needed to “choose a career path” I was torn. While I took many an art course (even got a minor in studio art), I ultimately chose the “responsible path” and pursued a career in the sciences as an ecologist. I have worked in this field for over 10 years, always continuing to create art on the side in one form or another. What I have learned about myself is that I need both – art and nature – preferably together, to feel whole.

In 2003 I launched my art business - Found & Rewound - named to describe my medium of mixed media collage – turning found objects into artistic creations. When I became a mother, Found & Rewound took a new twist along with everything else. My perspective shifted in such a profound way – things that used to be important were now trivial and many things I had taken for granted became paramount. And I realized that Found & Rewound had new meaning too. I am finding myself all over again and “rewinding” – redefining what is true for me through my art with the new lens that motherhood provides. So what can you expect? Lots and lots of rich, messy, real mixed-media art inspired by the {extra}ordinary moments I’m harvesting daily.

When I'm not in the studio, you can find me outside in the garden, on a hike or throwing rocks in the river with my hubby and our amazing little boy.