Our wonderful city of Chicago offers it’s own beauty aside from the great outdoors. I strive to bring nature to the city & to my fellow Chicagoans. By venturing to some of the most extreme outdoor destinations I am able to find the inspiration for my work, which manifests in the form of high contrast pieces composed of simple lines & dots framed in basic geometric shapes. Because of travel, my appreciation of the city has grown exponentially & it helps me look at Chicago in a different light. I enjoy correlating the massive towers of Torres Del Paine to our city skyline, the winding hiking trails of El Chalten to the busy bike paths of Lakeshore Drive, & the lava flows of Iceland to the brake lights down Milwaukee Ave. I like to think my work inspires people to get out & to educate themselves of the beauty of our planet which, in turn, will allow them to develop their own correlations between the manmade world & the natural world.

- Jordan W.