Eliot Joanna Angell

Artist’s Statement
The political scientist Glenn Tinder said “argument is the stepping out and affirming of one’s own irreducible reality,” but I am more comfortable with fluidity and paradox than solidity. My work reflects my reducible reality, my transience. My attention is drawn to the permeable membrane between physicality and transcendence, simultaneous layers of my experience: clothes and an invisible core. I sense that when I work creatively I open access to a world of threads in our collective dream life or at least to a depth of personal symbols that have meaning to me beyond reason, argument, or words.

I reflect threads of my experience in my skin and in this political world, with a prayer that we and our children will rise in simple flight above repression, abuse and discrimination to be the creative, graceful and beautiful people we were born to be. My creative practice brings me home to this ideal.