Delaney Engle

MFA Fine Arts

About

Delaney Engle, an artist-writer and illustrator, looks at life observationally-personally-emotionally. Her work ranges from conceptual video, creative writing, and large abstract painting to digital/physical narrative illustrations. She allows herself to work in multiple mediums as a means to investigate an idea through different material processes. Memories, intimacy, and human-connection find their way into each project. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

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dengle@student.otis.edu

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"Drawing through the pandemic. (2020-21) "Life was moving so fast, I got distracted. There was so much going on - so much to deal with at once. I didn’t see it. I didn’t see the red light. I didn’t stop. I was talking to my Dad on the phone. The school had just closed because of 'unprecedented circumstances.' And I was driving home. There was so much going on - so much to deal with at once. I didn’t see it."

"I recently saw a bundle of balloons out my window, down the hill, that escaped from a party they were entertaining at. They were a small collective: one pink, one green, one purple, one silver (like reflectively so - the leader? - decked in shiny medals), one blue, and one yellow. They were tied together at their waists, and were bopping and bapping each other as they made their grand ascent. Those tiny, stringy waists flinging and flying with excitement. They were above the trees, above the telephone poles, but just barely. They made it just above the streetlight when they all started screaming as they made their descent back down to the ground and back through those trees and telephone poles. As quickly as they came up, they fell right back down, and there was nothing they could do about it. I couldn’t see what happened next, but it’s only up or down for a balloon."