Datura

Datura 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.

Within its curling form, subtle Kené geometries shimmer—suggesting, in Jordan’s words, “the visible embodiment of ícaros, medicine songs transmitted by the plants and sung by shamans in ceremony.” 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, Datura becomes an emblem of transformation: the self dissolving into its surroundings, the boundary between seeing and being seen erased.