BOOK PRE-SALE UNTIL SEPT. 15

I am excited to share my first poetry book, A LOVE THAT LIVES IN THE DIRT, available for pre-sale until Sept. 15.

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, hardcover, digitally printed and hand signed by the artist.

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Jillian Adel is a multidisciplinary artist and poet whose work lives at the intersection of the mystical, the intimately personal, and the philosophical.

Her work utilizes energetic and emotional landscapes, archetypes, and alchemical processes of death, rebirth, and ritual, in order to observe and discuss the far corners of the human condition. Through configurations of paint, pastel, collage and poetic phrasing, she makes the subconscious conscious and discusses the unseen forces that move us. This process allows for greater self-observation and a fostering of maximum agency in the co-creation of ourselves and the world around us.

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/tarot practice called Vague Intellectual Pleasure.

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