Brian Jerome Paintings

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.

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...

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...

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.

The title is the description. I dont know what else to say anymore. I spend so long titling them and figuring out what i want to use words to convey a piece that has no words.

A continuous, and assumed, accidentally ignorance of seeing ones existence separate and passing others, as they do you, and missing the connection of experience and conversation.

Continuing to move forward in life, at the same time aware of the repercussions

i have a punishingly vivid memory of places, moments, occurences. a lot of them are great or benign. but the hard ones are equal. and i hope to always use those memories towards the ...

The memory of your life story can become broken and disconnected from moment to moment in self narrative. Once in a while there can be a beautiful moment of clarity and connection in...

The word originated in the 13th century from the Middle English per aventure, adapted from the Old French par aventure, literally meaning "by chance". The prefix per- (through/by) co...

The itches your body has before you fall asleep. The movements of your arms leg and neck that cannot find comfort. hearing and knowing the world is still all around you outside.

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...

a life long struggle to be the best you can be and to forgive yourself for the mistakes you made on the journey

To relate to the fundamental nature of being, existence, or reality of being.

if reincarnation or a loop in quantum time exists, it could not compare to what it has been in this experience.

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

There is so much in not only dealing with existing, but the endless chaos and factors surrounding and stimulating whatever this is. As I've gotten older its been harder to find the n...

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

being in the moment, living it in. beginning to end. the was, were and will be. all at the same. and its weird.

A smaller work that was both working through different landscape orientation as well as leading up to the 2018 election in the US. This work to me, reflects figures turning there bac...

Existing in the contemporary world, it can easily be agreed that, no matter your stance, opinion, difference between all things in between, it keeps getting worse. scarier. Desensiti...

Contemporary life is so packed with more complex chaos on top of a personal existence. its ever increasing seems to make it harder to sit down and remember what has happened and what...

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

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...

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

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.

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

Hunters herded the bison and drove them over the cliff, breaking their legs and rendering them immobile. Tribe members waiting below closed in with spears and bows to finish the kills.

I was raised very religiously. Revelations always interested me as an adolescent. Revelations 8:7 speaks of fire and hail mixed with blood raining on Earth. During this year after t...

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.

This probably deals with the subject of media, fame, guilt, internalization, rumination, capitalism, and being alive in the contemporary. I really hate ans...

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 ...

Life, existence, is always based on the beginning of sight and the building of interpretation from then and forward. Experience adds more, but it is still the earlier witnessing that...

The title is the title of the painting. The title is titled that way due to it being titled that way. The painting is about that title.

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.

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

The moments when eyes lock between one another that feel understood. that same moment where no words are worth trying to state the understanding.

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.

Traveling to and from the same place everyday and losing sight of when you are there or your way there. losing a concept of when it stops or when it ever started.

Moving apart or going in opposite directions. A lack of agreement between facts, figures, claims, or statements. An instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or ver...

Astronomical Twilight: The Sun is \(12^{\circ }\) to \(18^{\circ }\) below the horizon. The sky is dark enough to spot planets and bright stars, but professional astronomers must wai...

The description is the title. thats what it is. its also a picture.

The view at night, when the moon, stars, or cloud of pollution are dark, you might have one understanding and reflection. after sleep, or after seeing the sun rise, the sense of meta...

The luck to end a year and enter a new one. After enduring the story of struggle of existence thus far, and having a moment of clarity to just accept the beauty in the hardships.

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.

a state where the only thing that remains consistent is the fact that everything is fleeting

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...

completely exhausted: physically, emotionally dry. to feel like a squeezed lemon. but the lemon zest still exists intact to offer brightness.

look at the piece. read the title. take it for what it means for you, or dont. enjoy the painting or dont. i am so tired of having to fill in these boxes to publish. if you would li...

The moments and fortune of catching up with a close friend after years of life experience and separation. the shared and connected moments of the mirrored events that you both went t...

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...

The future is a hopeful sense that everyone and thing is safe, but deep down, we know that we may lose what we have, who we love, what is "normal" now, in an instant.

yourself between a rock and a hard place. autonomy of who were vs who you are vs who you want to be.

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 ...

sometimes in life we have to trust the bridge that we tried to build to get to the next part of life. even if that bridge feels uncertain and integrity is uncertain in design.

attempting to accept the tangible and realness of what is one's own physical limitation and the same to building life forward

so much can be lost in language. one words choice of words may not convey and be interpreted by another's ears.

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.

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