In my dream the Raven landed on my upper back and wrapped its black wings around my face. I became an initiate into arcane mysteries, guided through hidden ways, through doorways, to otherworldly places, my Great Work being to confer with Beings beyond. This path is liminal and ancient, cosmologically prior, temporally rooted in the heart of our Pagan past. Chosen by the Dark Goddess, to be psychopomp, oracle, seer, I bring my vision to mythopoetic creations, divination and healing arts.
Artists Biography
Angelique Coralie Kendall received her art education in South Africa at the Tshwane University of Technology, and the University of Cape Towns’ Michaelis School of Art. With an initial focus in Ceramics and Painting, she later matured as a Performance Artist integrating her background in dance with her visual art practice. She then turned her attention to theoretical subjects and received her Honours degree in Philosophy with a focus on Consciousness and Embodiment, supplementing these studies with courses in ancient religions, languages and cultures from the University of British Columbia. She has taught in and managed various ceramic studios in Vancouver Canada, also fulfilling technical services for them, before launching her own studio practice in 2022.
Artist Statement
Angelique works in multiple creative mediums, and is inspired by organic forms in the wilds, as well as that which is feral by nature, mythical and mystical wisdom, the chthonic, the deep psyche, the primordial cosmos. Her art is a foray into the liminal, and an attempt to record the transformative potential encountered there. She considers her work philosophical investigation in material substance. She also plays with her quaint and quirky imagination. Hræfnwize is a side project / identity that began as a venue for a very particular chthonic aesthetic that she found emerging in her art.