Traveling deeper into the night
being,
absence,
loss–
I picture the Earth think i n g
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.
Traveling deeper into the night
being,
absence,
loss–
I picture the Earth think i n g
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.