Illegible Lover by Jillian Adel
Illegible Lover
30x44" Pastel and gouache on paper. 2025.
"Illegible Lover" is an extracted grimoire page recording the saving of a life through no concept, nor strategy, nor reasoning—but through the complete validation and embrace of what feels good. and the understanding that this raw, completely unintelligible sense of eroticism is—in fact—direct coordinates on a map of a land I haven’t visited yet, at least not one my conscious brain knows. These fits of the illegible, and their understanding as truth, are the stuff of world building as real as any brick and mortar. our emotions as revelations, our courage to exist outside of language—revolution.
Jillian Adel is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist and poet who explores 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.
