Digital Art by Jeffery Alfier

Artist’s Statement:

I leave it to the viewer’s eye to evoke new narratives from my collages. I reassemble them from intimate, yet anonymous image fragments, suggestive of emotional pathos — like a shadow text, or understated intimations. This is also the reason faces are obscured; not to hide identity, but to universalize the images: they are not one person, but potentially all people. Yet, it also the case that the collages speak therapeutically to me, mirroring or illustrating Carl Jung’s concept of the Anima: the female part of the male psyche. There are, therefore, confessional elements to the collages — something charged with my own emotions, like auteur cinema, yet not something so buried in my own psyche and unconscious that viewers can’t see some of themselves in them. I believe in a touch of sensuality mainly achieved through an indirectness that does not eclipse wider considerations of human physicality. 

“Elle m'a peint avec son absence - She painted me with her absence”

“As though the light stole under her skin”

“Unspoken Acts IV”

BIO: C Alfier’s (they/them) artistic directions are informed by photo-artists Toshiko Okanoue, Deborah Turbeville, Francesca Woodman, and especially Katrien De Blauwer. Their most recent poetry book, The Shadow Field, was published by Louisiana Literature Press (2020). Journal credits include The Brooklyn Review, Faultline, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, River Styx, and Vassar Review.