Jordan Casteel Instagram – [Offering, 2025]
My phone is filled with pictures of me holding seasonal bouquets from my garden — a practice that has become a meditation, gift, and offering to my prayers. Central to the exhibition currently on view at @caseykaplangallery — “Offering” is a collective holding of our whispers.
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Casteel’s hand clasps a heap of zinnias, dahlias, and amaranth in Offering (2025). In a self-referential portrait, the artist points to an abundant bouquet, hand-grown and in full bloom, revealing the acts of cultivation made in autumn that reverberate into spring. Serving as a sanctuary for Casteel, the garden–a site of growth and decay, of turning dirt into life–embodies a creative endurance in the ebb and flow of seasonal and cultural rhythms. To paraphrase Walker, the garden’s resilience of imaginative spirit endures societal, daily hardship. Growth is willed from nothingness. Inherited fertile ground cycles through generations, and gestures of strength, beauty and defiance that came before echo in tomorrow’s blooms.
“Covering the holes in our walls with sunflowers” on view through Jan 10th
[Borrowing its title from Alice Walker’s 1974 essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”] | Posted on 19/Nov/2025 05:35:10
