Brian Jerome Art

Moments when you have to clench your hands, muscles and teeth in order to push through and make it forward.

It can be too easy, and too often, to give one's self up to care and overly empathize with others without a valid and secure response back.

According to the internet: Cherophobia, derived from the Greek word "chairo" meaning "to rejoice," is the fear of happiness or an aversion to activities that could bring joy.

A possible metaphysical map to the answer that does or does not exist or that we may benefit from.

We self-correct stories about ourselves. We retell stories the way we remember and how we want to remember. Political narratives change. People remember stories in relationships diff...

the past looks like a tunnel when you turn around, but its important to find comfort and understanding in it to sleepthe past looks like a tunnel when you turn around, but its import...

Even though it easy to get stuck and ruminate on the past, life does not wait and continues in a forward trajectory.

every year goes on. being and caring and listening to others, whoever and how close you are and care and empathize and sympathize and take in, and as the world does and society does,...

i have been so fortunate to witness a lifetime eclipse and lay on a cold beach looking at stars and worrying about missles while holding hands with another26

My girlfriend (now my wife) had trouble falling asleep one night. While i slept she went into my studio and made a drawing with pastel on one of my business cards and left it for me ...

The drive from Philadelphia to my hometown, York, used to seem like an eternity 16 years ago. As time has flown by, so has the drive. What once seemed like most a day, is a blip of...

Remembering reliving the nostalgic memory of your past, who you are now, but have no idea who you will be3500

We can only perceive and control so much as a human. Yet we all constantly demand more to avoid the inevitability of time.

After a distress of traumatic event, reflection, acceptance, and continuance, one can revisit the world in a less stark and depressing manner.

The last year of my life, and life in general, has been a whirlwind of experiences. In a physical sense, I was fortunate enough to travel and show my work around the country and wor...

Listings with rich descriptions are 40% more likely to sell and this was made while trying to ignore my inevitable divorce.

Everyday we wake up in a room. It's the same, similar. but its different. and every time you wake up in the room there are more memories.

My Nana and Grandpa had a watercolor painting of a barn growing up. I loved it growing up even though it took me until i was 16 to see a barn. Thought it. was abstract but i was over...

I wish I could do commissions. But I cannot. I heart is the bitter buffalo.

A place and a time that I have never visited but would like to stay at.

Trying to look ahead to the future. It keeps getting grayer and murkier. Looking for the headlights.

When is there enough effort put? In relationships, self preservation, career, politics, etc. We think it's enough, but we keep finding out there is more we could have done and should...

When life feels stuck or defeated, sometimes the answer is to return from a former starting place, reflect and move forward. Sometimes there are people and relationships that are lo...

Symbolism and forgotten memories that fade through years and years. This is my abstract interpretation of understanding my own brain's decision to keep some memories, while deleting ...

Had a mental breakdown. Life seemed to fall apart. The weather was beautiful for November.

The title comes from a reflection of my life living in North Philadelphia 2008-2014. I was pretty broke all the time, so getting actual liquor to drink was an occasional luxury. I li...

This was one of the first paintings of 2020. I had sold my first house and moved in with my fiance. I recently learned my studio lease would not be renewed. The angst of starting ane...

The 4th installment of my pieces set to waltz music.

Sometimes we can stare out, space out and be content losing track of time.

Materials used to show the vadalism, cover up, and decay of Philadelphia that mimics all of us.

Getting pinkeye as an adult is odd. Especially from adult things. Also I am depressed.

Life creates it self. We make choices. My promise of always is to the one that means everything to me. The hope of happiness and utopia forever through struggle and learning to under...

a state where a threat, stressor, or physical presence feels perpetually impending and unavoidable. It conveys a sense of constant anticipation or unease because the subject remains ...

its a phenomenon, we can still see outside if we are in a room with no windows and when we close our eyes. being confined to the subjective self but aware of all the world, time and ...

The length of time to travel to any destination, for weddings or funerals, is factual true. but once there, you are "here" even though it once was "there"

The song is written. its good. play it your own way and dont get yourself down.

The time that moved forward from the memories and time experienced, makes up the moment in real time.

Regardless of what decision and action, the importance of reflection and taking responsibility for your own place in outcomes and not blaming outside factors alone.

Remembering moments that were so very close to horrific, but the fortune to live in the probability that it did not.

We can all ignore seeing our own traumatic experiences in others as the brain tries to protect our emotions. Inevitably you will have to face it to be there for others and simultaneo...

grace and forgiveness are long sought after. when it does exist, it may feel underserving.

Entering in mid adulthood, actions are made. whether a career commitment, parenting, partnership, etc. it can be reactionary. but it is without repercussion and impossible to "redo" ...

simply about realizing that living and existing is existing in an unprecedented future based on so many variables. but we grow up thinking that there is a path, and our elders try to...

The world was once and still seen as the wild and the civilized. colonialization and the development of the world post argues that they will bring peace to the places that were once ...

It is so easy, within our nature and defense mechanisms to get so heated, riled up, loud and confrontational, that we can forget what we are trying to stand up for, argue for, and th...

My best friend always told me i have black eyes. They are dark, but black eyes dont exist. Everyone with brighter eyes told me the light hurts their eyes and head. Life only hurts m...

Memories of being 5 and my dad showing my the Kingston Trio and Harry Belafonte and him singing along. I miss that.

Sometimes when life changes over the years, one can try to adjust. Sometimes this becomes suppressing the authentic self. This is a mistake.

I grew up next to a farm, next to woods. I moved to North Philly. My parents sold the house I grew up in when I left and moved to 2000s suburbia housing. I moved to Kensington. My f...

We tend to think of plans as aspects of progress. Sometimes in life you do not realize that you may have actually created a plan to implode or have dire consequences.

What was going on in the background Edvard Munch's "The Scream". What did the onlookers think?

In Jewish tradition, Babylon symbolizes an oppressor against which righteous believers must struggle.[citation needed] In Christianity, Babylon symbolizes worldliness and evil. Proph...

Those times when the world, no matter how awful, blissful, woeful or joyful freezes and it is simply appreciated.

A calmer, more mature and slower work dealing with time and growth, as well as, change like the wind and weather.

Scotland is a great place to visit. World War 1 was a hundred years ago. We are repeating.

Life is a bunch of experiences of grasping and hoping for what you want but cannot control.

Some sunny days I feel relaxed; I feel like everything will be okay. But then it is disrupted with the news and hardships of reality and the anxiety it causes

Looking outside while the outside does not look inside all while the view has always been skewed

I contracted Covid-19 after the pandemic started. Even after my recovery, I became more and more reobsessed with finite conclusion. I have to die someday...

I have trouble sleeping. Trouble falling asleep. Trouble staying asleep. Trouble sometimes telling dreams from waking life. I have used multiple medications and substances over the y...