Jordan Manley

Films
Treeline
In Progress (ft. doc)
Out On A Limb
A Skier’s Journey

Photographs
Environs
Folks
Salmonid
White Planet

Sounds

Arts & Crafts

Lately

About

Contact

One of my earliest memories is hammering and sawing wood in my dad’s basement workshop. Another: binding fabric with haphazard stitches with my mom. I’m very grateful for being introduced to making and tinkering with different materials from an early age.

All three mediums below: drawing, woodworking, and sewing, each relate to the human body in intriguing ways for me. Woodworking engages the body completely and connects me to a specific ecology and life story of a tree; drawing is the ultimate study of the body; and sewing aides and compliments it. Film and photography, for me, has been a way to document physical movements and connections with the environment, that in turn help to reveal who we are as a people (culture), and what we believe in (the spirit). Put together, all of these mediums offer a way for me to connect and reflect on my connection to the environment that sustains me as a human being. And perhaps more simply, they are ways to continue that inexplicable necessity to make and create that I was first introduced to as an young child.

Leaning into the wind / pen, coloured pencil

“Rain stool” in salvaged ancient driftwood yellow cedar

Sorrel Mae learning to somersault at age 2 / pencil

Snow dance / marker

“Rain stool” in salvaged ancient driftwood yellow cedar

Tea scoop / carved cherrywood, carbonized finish with walnut oil

Roll for oirenomi woodworking chisels / leather & patterned denim

Stool / Eastern hard maple

Driftwood salvage, Douglas fir

Crate with lid / driftwood Douglas fir

Everyday companion bag for climbs up Mt Seymour

Drawer and book case / Baltic birch ply

Variable volume handlebar bag

Shoulder rides for Sorrel Mae / pencil and coloured pencil

Jeremiah and the twins (my brother and I) drawn from a picture taken in 1994 / charcoal and coloured pencil

Sorrel Mae, age 3 / ink and watercolour

Padded cases for microphones, Ti pot, stationary

Triangular prism case / old sail cloth

Coastal BC doodles / pencil, coloured pencil

Branch spoon / Japanese maple

Mortises, traditional Chinese bench in Douglas fir

Traditional Japanese “shokunin” toolbox / salvaged driftwood Western red cedar