JAMIE KRIPKE

JAMIE KRIPKE

Jamie Kripke is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and second-generation clockmaker. Spanning three decades, his work interweaves photography, creative direction, video, printmaking, and product design. His practice is rooted in observations from the edges of the human environment—from high alpine zones and coastal areas to dense urban spaces—and explores our innate resonance with color, form, and composition. He lives and works between Boulder, Colorado and Tokyo, Japan.

WORKS ON DISPLAY

Altered Atlas

Altered Atlas is a collaged series of images taken across a lifetime of alpine travel – skiing, hiking, and climbing in the Rockies, Alps, Japan, and beyond. Printed on rag paper, then cut by hand and sewn together, each piece assembles fragments of place into something that resembles memory more than map. Loose threads hang deliberately, marking the human hand and echoing climbing ropes, ski routes, and the fraying of recollection over time. Patterns drawn from analog print traditions treat distortion as authenticity rather than error. Each piece has its own internal weather system, with static electricity and humidity randomly animating the loose threads beneath the glazing, season to season. This is an atlas you cannot navigate by, altered by time, touch, climate, and imperfect memory.