Untitled, Flooded Home V

"Untitled, Flooded Home V" is part of Nina Jordan’s series "Floods and Houses." In these recent works, she continues her engagement with images of homes but shows them as viewed through the lens of disasters resulting from climate change. The works in Jordan’s earlier "Houses" series questioned the notion and the function of home. The prints in the Flood series by contrast are inspired by photographs of recent floods and the devastation that resulted. Jordan shows the houses not as idealized habitats presented in real estate listings but as evidence of devastation. This impression is supported by the raw quality of the woodblock grain found throughout the print. Rather than covering these irregularities and rough patches, Jordan allows these textures to correspond to the destruction of the homes and the reflect the violence of the flood waters and storms. Here, Jordan focuses on a white house and carport in the midst of flood waters. The brown and green palette is in contrast to the white paint of the house. The image of the house is reflected in the dark water, creating an image of beauty in contrast to the disaster depicted.