Artist Statement

I am a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist, mystic, and anti-capitalist exploring the intersection of the archetypal, the intimately personal and collective equity. Ritual is the spine of my practice, a form of creative liberation that disrupts inherited narratives and reorients me toward embodied truth. My work with death, nature, and the erotic are an invitation to return to the primal intelligence of the body, the earth, and the soul—bringing fragmentation back into coherence.

My current inquiry centers on the belief that survival is not a scar but a programmable energetic architecture that can be rewritten through art-making in collaboration with our psyche. I work with imagination as a form of technology—the present moment, an interface for transformation. As an abuse survivor, darkness does not evoke fear but fertile ground for erotic embodiment. The container of ritual allows me to disengage my conscious mind in order to allow more abstract and symbolic work to emerge. These artifacts reveal shadowed truths, integrating what has been exiled, and contributing to a more balanced, liberated collective.

The central questions guiding my practice are:

1. Exploration

Where does my creative, erotic energy intertwine with what I have survived?

2. Evaluation

Which archetypes emerge through ritualistic art-making that acts as an interface between survival and shadow? What medicine do they provide through their mythology?

3. Integration

Where do my personal experiences of survival—and their erotically-medicinal, archetypal counterparts—weave with my communities? And how might they inform grounded work towards a more equitable collective?

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jillian.adel@gmail.com

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