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.