{"title":"Bottino x Noah Jordan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpirit Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"angel-s-trumpet","title":"Angel’s Trumpet","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAngel’s Trumpet\u003c\/em\u003e, Jordan paints the Brugmansia flower not as a specimen but as an emissary. Suspended in the canvas’s still air, the flower glows from within, its drooping trumpet-shaped petals lit like a lantern at dusk. It’s one of the most poisonous flowering plants on Earth, the artist says, “and also one of the most beautiful.” That duality—seduction and danger—is the painting’s pulse. The composition is simple, even serene, but beneath it lies tension: a beauty so radiant it borders on peril.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHistorically associated with both spiritual vision and toxic delirium, Brugmansia has been used by Indigenous healers and sorcerers alike. Jordan describes the patterns “woven into its trumpet-like form” as carrying \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“the visual language of the master plant teacher Ayahuasca,”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e linking Brugmansia and Ayahuasca as allies within traditional Amazonian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003edietas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKené\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e patterns he uses originate with the Shipibo-Conibo people of the Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon. These sacred geometries are regarded as the visible embodiment of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eícaros\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—medicine songs transmitted by the plants and sung by shamans in ceremony. Jordan’s handling recalls Redon’s dreamlike still lifes, where the organic world becomes an altar to the subconscious. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAngel’s Trumpet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e exists in that same liminal space, where the divine and the deadly share the same bloom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Noah Jordan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44429226278946,"sku":null,"price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/5348\/4322\/files\/20x20_Angel_sTrumpet_Edit_web.jpg?v=1762095994"},{"product_id":"san-pedro","title":"San Pedro","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe San Pedro cactus has been used ceremonially in the Andes for over 3,000 years. For Jordan, it represents “a bridge between the physical and the spiritual; a profound heart-opener facilitating reconnection with ourselves, nature and one another.” In this painting, the cactus rises from darkness—its flowers glowing like small suns, suspended in the void. Against the black ground, each petal and spine appears almost self-illuminated, as if the plant generates its own light.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJordan’s rendering transforms the cactus into a vertical axis, a column of ascension. Its spines catch the light like tiny antennae, transmitting unseen frequencies. \u003cspan\u003eThe patterns woven into its form are intended to evoke the psychoactive essence of the plant and the visionary states it can open\u003c\/span\u003e. Here, form becomes vibration. Through the stillness of \u003cem\u003eSan Pedro\u003c\/em\u003e, Jordan offers a vision of communion: matter charged with spirit, the natural world revealed as conscious and awake.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Noah Jordan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44429227884578,"sku":null,"price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/5348\/4322\/files\/20x20-_SanPedro_Edit_Nov01_web.jpg?v=1762095994"},{"product_id":"datura","title":"Datura","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDatura\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e closes the cycle. The flower is open, white against a dark ground, its petals unfurling like smoke or sound. Long associated with dreams, thresholds, and witchcraft, Datura is known to induce visions so vivid they collapse the border between hallucination and reality. Jordan calls it “a plant of passage,” one that reveals the fragility of perception itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWithin its curling form, subtle \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eKené\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egeometries shimmer—suggesting, in Jordan’s words, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“the visible embodiment of ícaros, medicine songs transmitted by the plants and sung by shamans in ceremony.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Here, the reference to Shipibo-Conibo cosmology broadens the painting’s symbolic reach: Datura becomes not just a botanical subject but a participant in a larger web of plant consciousness. The painting’s surface carries that sense of crossing. Its tonal gradations shift imperceptibly, like light moving through fog. The image is at once botanical and transcendental—a portrait of a flower and a state of mind. In Jordan’s hands, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDatura\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e becomes an emblem of transformation: the self dissolving into its surroundings, the boundary between seeing and being seen erased.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Noah Jordan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44429236994082,"sku":null,"price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/5348\/4322\/files\/20x20_Datura_Edit_web.jpg?v=1762095995"}],"url":"https:\/\/rectangle.art\/collections\/noah-jordan-at-bottino.oembed","provider":"RECTANGLE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}