Story and artwork from Angelique Nagovskaya
Art confronts and informs. Rather than avoiding controversy and conflict, it challenges established beliefs and often shapes our understanding of others. It also possesses a compelling capacity to make people see – and reflect – in deeper and more compelling ways.
My art works to confront the disconnection I sense from the world around me. Channeling religion, dreams, and vulnerability. I strive to question accepted norms and hope to inspire others to do the same.
The first of the new series of large scale drawings inspired by the queer subconscious. I have had vivid nightmares every night for the past four years. Instead of fighting them, I started to explore them, realizing many truths that I blocked from my conscious, most with the insecurities with my queer identity.
I focus on the way children process their surroundings, queer suppression, comfort and chaos of dreams. I work in a traditional drawing manner, rendering a scene photorealistically, yet distorting slightly to create an uneasy feeling in my audience. I am fascinated in disorder of the internal.
