parts of some whole

by
jackson hunt*

When I’m making a painting I’m thinking about what to reveal.

I’m drawn to images.

Often they are hidden.

If I show something will the viewer know
what it is?

Usually it’s a part of me.

The paintings are not equations.
Usually they are intuitive.
Combinations.
1+1+1 needs to equal 5. Or maybe 1.

Painting is so often just about painting. Color and form, texture and line, shape and space. Solving the problems
I made for myself.

My paintings are becoming less painted
Photographs create structure
Fissures in paper create movement

Paint can be palpable while also facilitating illusion.
When I say paint sometimes I’m not talking about paint.
My paint can be paint but it can be paper.
Or ink from the printer making images. Or a shape that is cut or adhered

In previous bodies the image completely dissolved. If you look close you could see fragments
of photographic language but mostly it was color, shape, and texture.
Pictures of people and things are also color. Shape. Texture.

There’s a picture of my mother and her sister walking in the lava beds. The picture exists on three planes
and you can only see one at a time.
You might be able to connect all three if you move your body and pay attention.
Muybridge documented the Modoc War. Stereoscopic.
Images repeat within the frame and across the room. Paintings wrap around corners. There’s a need to
step back to get the whole picture.
Elongating the frame, pictures form sequences, motion and time.
Sometimes in my brother’s films he’s shooting from a moving car.
Captured and then disappeared again.

Here are a list of titles for paintings that I haven’t made yet:

Poems for my enemies
Rat salad
Exoskeletal depression
Caffeine suicide
Fictitious abrasion
Animalistic meditation

Green screen nightmare
Into the hole
Garden bed
Alcoholics Anonymous
Albert oehlen fan club
My barn having burned down, I now can see the moon

The Moron
Highlight reel
All Star
6th man
Pit stain
Dog walk

Hypochondria
Bloat
Scab picker
50 seconds could be 50 years
Bleed
Ankle brace
Time heals everything (and then you die)
Floaters
Soundtrack for cows
Iced americano (short)
Sacro-B

Dog Blanket
Blur
Splinter
Scoot scoot
Dog blanket basketball shorts
The gaze dissolving the object
Blinders
Cats and dogs
Can you see better at night
Brighten your lifes
Colors and lines
Spaghetti sandwich but I’m gluten free

* Another collection from Jackson Hunt is available in “The Road to Wisdom: manifesting the sacred towards justice”, the third issue of the Living Commons Collective Magazine.

QUOTE AS:
Jackson Hunt. Parts of some whole. The Living Commons Collective Magazine. N.5, July 2026. p. 122-132