Messenger 4

by Christopher Engel

41″ x 30″ – Mixed Media on Paper

Unframed

Eternal figures surrounded by symbols, text, and collaged images, are prominent in Engel’s “Messengers” series. With a bold use of color and brushstrokes, Engel’s “messengers” take the shape of angels, prophets, monks, nuns, rabbis, shaman, teachers, spirits, and ancestors. These works are “portraits” of those who, “summoned or not,” as Carl G. Jung has stated, “are present.”

Christopher Engel explains, “these figures appear in every culture in different forms, with the same message – we are only passing through this life momentarily yet we are each part of something that never ends. We are not alone, we are part of the universe.”