Brian Jerome Art

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.

waking up everyday we automatically go through the day based on the lessons and life or experience from all the days before. but each day it gets different and less recognizable. sam...

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

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

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...

To find myself and return to what makes me, myself, i traveled to new towns and cities through airplanes, trains and cars. It made me healthier.

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

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...

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

After a treacherous year of change and the emotional brutality and transition of life, I engaged on a physical and, non-intended, journey through mental revival. To leave old rumina...

I spent almost a decade after kitchen shifts at Old Philadelphia Bar in Kensington.

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

Moving, restarting, unboxing, organizing, all to start the right way after all previous experience

Trying to come to terms with consciousness and time. how we change and try to remember all the memories now not as trusted as once was.

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

Always comes form my wife's favorite story but always is what always was and will be. forever is a constant to the universe but not to us.

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

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...

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...

So it started here, and then we met so and so, we got to there, and then this happened, so we backtracked to where we left off and now it is kind of right here in this mess.

Listings with rich descriptions are 40% more likely to sell and this was made when I filed for divorce.

A friend from grad school gave me a painting he did not think was successful. I have worked over the canvas since 2017. It is now 2023 and I finally feel like it is done.

My wife and I visited Edinburgh, Scotland for Thanksgiving. It was an incredibly nostalgic trip for one we had never been on. We held hands and walked the streets by the ferris whe...

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

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

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

There is a monster inside. There is a journey to discover. Life sucks. Life is beautiful.

I lived in North Philadelphia and Kensington for over a decade. My first studio after grad school was in the Badlands. I had a rickety balcony that had a great view of the neighborh...

A calm piece hiding a lot of pain.

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

This painting has has 547 marks and moves to symbolize each day of a year and half long relationship in my mid-twenties. The painting was done as a self healing therapy process to en...

Sometimes life constantly feels like a never ending hallway. every once in a while here is a door ahead. that door may forever to get to and it might lead to another hallway. always ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Sometimes life and existence can feel like a prison. you dont know when it started and where it came from. hopeless can feel real. but there is still always what you were wondering t...

In the last 16 years I have moved 9 times. 3 of which were houses i purchased with the intent to never move again and to finally have some where to call home. In all those apartmen...

2023 was a terrible year, personally for me. A lot of loss, restructure, defeat, and recognition that life inevitably moves on and gets worse. Here is to not giving up, and 2024.

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

Listings with rich descriptions are 40% more likely to sell and this was made 3 months leading up to my divorce.

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.

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 go after what we do not have. We want what we have not. It might be foolish, but in order to to be happy, one must try.

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

After school in high school, I would drive around the cornfields and neighborhoods with friends listening to music and smoking until it was time to ...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 like that the universe is indifferent to us and that the plants and water will live without our concern of self and worry

Primary Colors. World War 3. Covid. My wife created the best absurd title. Make your own meaning.

Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence. Three years. Inundated Pestilence.

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