Name/Title
InsidiousEntry/Object ID
2023.3.1Description
A Mixed media work on vinyl, Depicting three women (two in the foreground and one in the background,) and a Tardigrade (water bear.) There is a moon-like landform peaking over the horizon, with the silhouettes of red birds flying past the right side of it in an arc formation. There are earth-toned mountain silhouettes leading up to the moon on either side of it that decrease in size moving towards it, suggesting depth. Brown, ovaloid rocks are scattered about the piece, clustering mostly towards the foreground, and also get smaller further back into the piece. Moving forward is a half-bust of a woman with cool-toned olive skin. Her face is obscured by a flower-like image, it is in black and white similar to a coloring page; she is nude, her arms being tucked to her side and her lower half only being covered by what looks like a blanket. This light burnt orange "blanket" trails from the middle ground to the foreground. InCollection
HCC Permanent Art CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Aneka IngoldRole
ArtistDate made
2014Location
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ExhibitExhibition
In their Own WordsInterpretative Labels
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DidacticLabel
Aneka Ingold’s work is both allegorical and deeply personal; she relies on intuition and the symbolic language held in the subconscious to guide the arrangement of figures, animals, and patterns compiled from various sources. In Insidious, two female figures and an enlarged tardigrade churn around a disorienting environment that is at once unsettling and alluring. The work is the result of the artist processing feelings about change, survival, and her own identity. Ingold hopes that people connect to her work through their own interpretations, stating “I'm glad that there is a message in the end that it is in many ways open for interpretation, but I do hope that people can take their own catalog of experiences or their history of images that they understand and find their own stories in there.”