Stay on your guard, Joe
Anyone who dismisses you
Dismiss them promptly,
Permanently, and
Without recollection
Don’t compromise on what matters to you
Keep active
Do not cultivate the uninterested
Do not accommodate them
Keep away from them
Do not work for them
or, with them
Don’t get lost
Traveling deeper into the night
I picture the Earth
think i n g
turning over
being,
absence,
loss
Years on
I carry,
wherever I go,
Your echo
Ayngel emerged from a chance encounter at a gas-station in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
This body of work investigates the emotional, material, and transformative evolutions of identity and the desire for and enduring effects of human connection. Through an elliptical sequence of portraits, still-lifes, appropriated images, and diaristic texts, the work intertwines fictions considering family, labor, mental-health, and memory. In the process, timelines and identities merge, fracture, and reassemble to highlight the inherently fictive and fragmentary nature of depiction. Ayngel is an act of love, focused on the value of familial and social bonds during our contemporary era of exceeding social and political instability across the United States.
Stay on your guard, Joe
Anyone who dismisses you
Dismiss them promptly,
Permanently, and
Without recollection
Don’t compromise on what matters to you
Keep active
Do not cultivate the uninterested
Do not accommodate them
Keep away from them
Do not work for them
or, with them
Don’t get lost
Traveling deeper into the night
I picture the Earth
think i n g
turning over
being,
absence,
loss
Years on
I carry,
wherever I go,
Your echo
Ayngel emerged from a chance encounter at a gas-station in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
This body of work investigates the emotional, material, and transformative evolutions of identity and the desire for and enduring effects of human connection. Through an elliptical sequence of portraits, still-lifes, appropriated images, and diaristic texts, the work intertwines fictions considering family, labor, mental-health, and memory. In the process, timelines and identities merge, fracture, and reassemble to highlight the inherently fictive and fragmentary nature of depiction. Ayngel is an act of love, focused on the value of familial and social bonds during our contemporary era of exceeding social and political instability across the United States.