Jillian Adel is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist, mystic and anarchist. She explores the intersection of the archetypal and the intimately personal through ritual as a means of creative liberation. Her work with death, nature, and the erotic facilitate integration of shadow for a more equitable collective.

She has been featured by Philadelphia Contemporary + more and was a 2024 artist-in-residence at Can Serrat in El Bruc, Barcelona.

Beyond her fine art practice, she runs an award-winning commercial art studio, Studio of Earthly Delights, and an esoteric practice called Vague Intellectual Pleasure.

Drawing / Paintings

Metal / Jewelry

The Magus is the channel between worlds—the above and below, truth and desire, mastering duality through the creative use of elemental tools. But what is the Magus themselves comprised of? Are they not formed of Earth like the rest of us? Made of dirt and spit and spark of Spirit, rising from the nothing that was once everything, the ouroboros of the Fool’s breath of life. The first container for pure potential. But not without awareness of what came before, what ground bore them, history encoded into their cells as the mysteries of the elements.

In my inaugural metal collection, Magus of the Dirt, the spark of the upcoming 2026 Magician year is honored in its connection to the infinite, in the everything that came before and brought us to this moment. Metal, bone, tooth and fossil—relics of our history as we set ourselves free into a new reality. We've cut, shaped, forged and polished. Now we sit in power, charged and ready, in gratitude and gratitude and gratitude, our bodies as an altar, covered in offering, dripping with the medicine of yesterday, grounding in a tomorrow we never knew we were always promised.

Poetry

I am excited to share my poetry book, A LOVE THAT LIVES IN THE DIRT

This poetry collection contains 40 pieces written between 2022-2024, and was originally printed in one single copy and bound at a traditional bookbindery in Barcelona, Spain during my first art residency at Can Serrat.

This collection is a Scorpionic journey, initiating me into expanses and depths of grief that I never knew were possible and of my own erotic nature in equal measure. This work is a devotional to Death. To the process of dying, killing, ending, and existing in the void thereafter. This book is a talisman for the destigmatization of suicidal ideation and an artifact of surviving parental abuse. My hope is that these words can sit with you whenever you are in the dark and that you will feel less alone. And that they can serve as a testament to your own erotic capacity.

The book is 96-pages, soft cover, digitally printed and hand signed by the artist.

Read the lore of how the book came to be here or watch the video below.

Lore

Spoken Word + Moving Image

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