Artist’s Statement
“We often talk about prophecy as people talking about something about the future. And I always think that prophets are talking about now. That’s part of what makes them dangerous, because we are mostly living in the past…They were talking about now, and then we catch up. We catch up to the truth of the experience that we are in. We catch up to the truth of what is actually unfolding that we can’t reconcile with yet, and then we come to a point in which we begin to reconcile the truth of our experience.”
—Angel Kyodo Williams for “On Being”
My work has historically explored the transformative nature of relationships through texture and language, understanding that what happens on the micro level amplifies out to the macro over time. In this last year, my internal world has been reformatted, cleared out, and my truest energy crystallized. This has refined the idea of “micro” from an intellectual understanding of emotion to a narrative of a life lined with lessons carrying medicine. And expanded the concept of “macro” out from building new realities with community to a spiritual and energetic understanding of the world around me and how our individual soul paths form and inform collective shifts.
What once was a somewhat passive idea of transformation in my work through portals of experience, is now a completely intentional alchemical process of function and form. What I once called activism, I now call magic. And not in some untouchable, unreachable occulted way—although I am now in an active study of the Western Mysteries—but the magic that every person has available to them as their birthright, and is able to be leveraged with a better understanding of that magic and how to direct it.
Gallery / Stockist—
In Heroes We Trust
West Hollywood, CA
Residencies—
Can Serrat 2024 (pending)
El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain
Featured—
Collect Artwork: “101 Contemporary Artists, Vol. 3” Book
Summer 2023
Collect Artwork: “Romance” Issue Cover Artist
Summer 2023
Women United: Curator’s Pick
Summer 2023
Suboart Magazine
July 2023
Artwork Gallery, “Power” Digital Exhibit
June 2023
Healing Verse Poetry Line, Philadephia Contemporary
2023
Shows—
2023, June 1-July 2: ArtShare LA: Love! Above All Else (Group)
Angel City Brewery—Los Angeles, CA
2022, Sept. 17-18: Other Places Art Fair (Group)
Angel’s Gate Park—San Pedro, CA
2022, Apr. 9-10: Brewery Art Walk (Group)
Le Garage @ Brewery Art Lofts—Downtown Los Angeles
2021, Nov. 5-10: The Opposite of Death (Solo)
Stay Fresh Gallery—Syracuse, NY
2019, Sept. 6-19: A Bloodied Kind of Hope (Solo)
Nous Tous Gallery—Chinatown, Los Angeles
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