“REGRESS” Digital Media 9 x 12 For those not familiar with vaudeville, blackface, or minstrel shows, Obama is not the subject of this poster. This piece only mimics the style of Shepard Fairey’s original work.    This is an image of a picaninny - what used to be called a nigger child. It was used heavily in advertising and repurposed in popular forms of entertainment (television, film, cartoons). It is a symbol of black oppression, a representation of black exploitation and stereotyping in pop culture that continues to this day, and is thusly expressed as such here. 

“REGRESS”

Digital Media

9 x 12


For those not familiar with vaudeville, blackface, or minstrel shows, Obama is not the subject of this poster. This piece only mimics the style of Shepard Fairey’s original work.   

This is an image of a picaninny - what used to be called a nigger child. It was used heavily in advertising and repurposed in popular forms of entertainment (television, film, cartoons). It is a symbol of black oppression, a representation of black exploitation and stereotyping in pop culture that continues to this day, and is thusly expressed as such here. 

"Any artist who denies the existence of influence in their own work, claiming their ideas come solely from their own mind, is full of several things, but most assuredly gangrene, horse shit, and themselves."

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I’ve had this blog for almost a year now, and I personally feel like I really need to step it up with the posts. Soooo, seeing as how it takes me, what seems like forever, to get a piece up to my standards of finality, I’m going to start posting more images of half done pieces, drafts, and miscellaneous sketches, etc etc….STARTING NOW!!! ==> I’m working on an illustration called “blurry bear”, and I’m hoping to achieve just the right amount of “dark whimsy” and flawed beauty. We will see!  ▲ - ✒ - ☁ - ☂

I’ve had this blog for almost a year now, and I personally feel like I really need to step it up with the posts. Soooo, seeing as how it takes me, what seems like forever, to get a piece up to my standards of finality, I’m going to start posting more images of half done pieces, drafts, and miscellaneous sketches, etc etc….STARTING NOW!!! ==>
 
I’m working on an illustration called “blurry bear”, and I’m hoping to achieve just the right amount of “dark whimsy” and flawed beauty. We will see! 

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"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

▲▼ This is a emblem I created for a series of illustrations I’m doing on the meaning of love. its comprised of an erect and inverted triangle (male & female, push & pull, up & down, solar & lunar) and red cloth that connects them both (symbolizing life, creation, connectedness, balance, control, and harmony) The project is still a wrok in progress. © Jordan Manigo/Yarad —————“Creation is an intellectual and bodily discipline, a school of energy.” - Albert Camus“There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to each is the same; only Love.” — Lisl Spangenberg In Ancient Egypt the Triangle was seen as a symbol of intelligence and indicated the capacity for love. The triangle is a prime element of the Buddhist Shri Yantra mandala encourages the invocation of love energy to achieve ascended states of consciousness and union with the divine. The Triangle also deals with the love represented in the mother, father, child union as well as the holy trinity. As mentioned earlier, as a graphic representation of an inverted triangle, it symbolizes a vessel in which love is poured or carried.

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This is a emblem I created for a series of illustrations I’m doing on the meaning of love. its comprised of an erect and inverted triangle (male & female, push & pull, up & down, solar & lunar) and red cloth that connects them both (symbolizing life, creation, connectedness, balance, control, and harmony) The project is still a wrok in progress.

© Jordan Manigo/Yarad

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“Creation is an intellectual and bodily discipline, a school of energy.” - Albert Camus

“There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to each is the same; only Love.” — Lisl Spangenberg 

In Ancient Egypt the Triangle was seen as a symbol of intelligence and indicated the capacity for love. The triangle is a prime element of the Buddhist Shri Yantra mandala encourages the invocation of love energy to achieve ascended states of consciousness and union with the divine. The Triangle also deals with the love represented in the mother, father, child union as well as the holy trinity. As mentioned earlier, as a graphic representation of an inverted triangle, it symbolizes a vessel in which love is poured or carried.


"As an artist, I believe it is NOT my job to educate, but to elicit emotion. If my opinion is shared, then it is a welcomed byproduct of my work."

Me

— Corporate mark clean up & t-shirt designs for Altitude Salvation Brand —

© Altitude Salvation 2012
© JordanManigo/Yarad 2012 

(Source: altitudesalvation.com)

“RED Tears”

11 x 17

Vector Illustration

— T-shirt illustration for Altitude Salvation Brand —

© JordanManigo/Yarad 2012

I dont know what this is, but I know I just spent 3 hours on it. I know that much…and that it reminds me of ecstasy pills.  © Jordan Manigo 2012  

I dont know what this is, but I know I just spent 3 hours on it. I know that much…and that it reminds me of ecstasy pills.  

© Jordan Manigo 2012  

Sketch exercise…because I RARELY draw by hand anymore.