Jordan Pascoe Bartee

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

When the twin towers collapsed I was nearly seventeen years old. Like many people my age, I watched the events play out across a television screen in realtime. As an American ex-pat living in Israel, I also witnessed their immediate global impact. When the Iraq war began in earnest the following school year, fears that Israel might become collateral damage caused most embassies to evacuate their people. I attended an American international school populated mainly by the children of foreign dignitaries and military personnel, so this resulted in my high school being shut down for a number of months in 2003. Those of us who remained in the country were required to carry gas masks, prepare bomb shelters, and run drills for chemical warfare scenarios. In 2016 I was living in Seattle as a designer and manufacturer of experimental modular synthesizers. This life was abruptly interrupted by a series of religious experiences that culminated in the discovery of a "high-dimensional coincidence" I call the Red Twins Constellation, a massively parallel precognitive structure involving correspondences between literal images of 9.11 and fantasy images appearing in pre-2001 visual media. I have since dedicated my life and art to the elucidation and explication of this structure. My journey began with the creation of a mockup cover for a novel I was working on. Although I never finished writing it, the book would have been about an ambiguous internet-religion spread through the creation...

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