Sentinels and Saviors: Iconic Avatars

     In this quiet, in a meditation of breath, in an opening up to that which arrives, a sign may appear. It may carry a shape, a form, a color, a movement lifting the gaze, carrying the heart. It is an interior space with fluid borders and when an image emerges it often evolves to reveal a natural impulse that seems just to have been waiting for discovery. When Joell Jones  plumbs the ether of consciousness she culls forms of simplicity and dynamism. The reductive figure with outstretched wings both anchors an X in distribution across the picture plane and paradoxically expands with a swooshing propulsion of flight through space. Uplifted birds or leaves or angelic saviors, Jones’ light touch grants these spirits dominion over and through a watery matrix.     – Jan Wurm