ANGELS (2024-present) is the latest series from American multimedia artist and photographer J.A. Young. Young’s ever-expanding body of work is a single, ongoing project: a non-rational, starkly intimate experiment in intuitive expression, which seeks to capture what it feels like to be alive in an era of technological hyper-violence, unrelenting ecological devastation, and a palpable sense of high strangeness. Informed by years of compulsive research into a wide range of fields, from cultural anthropology and world mysticism to paranormal phenomena and the occult, Young’s work combines various materials and methods to transform subtle emotions into tangible visual expressions. Using both personal photographs and public domain archival images as raw materials, Young radically decontextualizes and transmutes these forms through a layered process of dramatic recomposition, spontaneous print manipulation, divination, and rephotography, immersing the viewer in a psychic landscape where the utility of the image is dissolved and new, evocative meanings can emerge. The images in ANGELS were intentionally created with no particular concepts or narratives in mind and assembled only in retrospect; together they reveal Young's evolving perception of and relation to both the material and immaterial worlds.