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Joe Leavenworth
Ayngel
Native Son
(Ash)
Portraits
Books
Info
CV

coulditall
beginagain?

                                 




Traveling deeper into the night


being,

absence,

loss–


I picture the Earth think i     n          g






I'd be disingenuous if I didn't acknowledge an old line:

I was you

Years on 

I carry

Wherever I go

Your echo

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


Ayngel emerged from a chance encounter between Ayngel and Leavenworth at a gas-station in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 

Ayngel investigates the emotional, material, and shifting constructions of personal identity and the enduring effects of human connection. Through an elliptical sequence of portraits, still-lifes, appropriated images, and diaristic texts, Leavenworth intertwines fictions considering fate, belonging, labor, and memory. In the process, timelines and identities merge, fracture, and reassemble, contradicting documentary strategies and highlighting the inherently fragmentary and fictive nature of depiction. Ayngel is an act of love, focusing on the value of social and familial bonds during a time of exceeding social and political instability in America.







coulditall
beginagain?

                                 




Traveling deeper into the night


being,

absence,

loss–


I picture the Earth think i     n          g






I'd be disingenuous if I didn't acknowledge an old line:

I was you

Years on 

I carry

Wherever I go

Your echo

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


Ayngel emerged from a chance encounter between Ayngel and Leavenworth at a gas-station in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 

Ayngel investigates the emotional, material, and shifting constructions of personal identity and the enduring effects of human connection. Through an elliptical sequence of portraits, still-lifes, appropriated images, and diaristic texts, Leavenworth intertwines fictions considering fate, belonging, labor, and memory. In the process, timelines and identities merge, fracture, and reassemble, contradicting documentary strategies and highlighting the inherently fragmentary and fictive nature of depiction. Ayngel is an act of love, focusing on the value of social and familial bonds during a time of exceeding social and political instability in America.