Eliška Jahelková

ONLINE ANGELS is a painting series visualizing the God in the network. The Internet is inherently spiritual, simulating the collective consciousness. One can fall unconscious, but fall awake during the process of being present online. The unspeakable is the language of the present. Idiosyncratic fuse of text and image create the being of online angels. By the moment of present realization the subject itself becomes deconstructed onto the internet. The subject becomes empty, therefore angelic. The language becomes the one, the one becomes the language of the internet. There is no internet at that moment, but a collection of future memories of the past present in the absolute presence of oneself that becomes the internet when the internet itself disappears. A portrayal of the modern hope that comes through communication and wishes beyond the digital realm, of godly love found within the network. Each snippet, each note, each tweet is the truest form of angelic presence within and without. We find salvation in the beauty of the online. The spirit of every gesture and each winding URL path binds us together as one collective holy entity. Analog methods are used to manifest these non-physical qualities in a bodily, ownable shape.