Lena Angrist

My name is Lena Angrist and I am a graduating senior at DSA. My inquiry question is how can I represent the definitions of faith? I defined faith as loyalty, as in faithfulness, hope, as in feeling faithful, and religion. These definitions all connect deeply with my personal life, and the way I have been feeling throughout the pandemic. I wanted to explore hope, as it was something I was struggling to feel, but wanted to find. Often I think hope is found through other people, which is where my concept of loyalty came from. I am also a Jewish person, so exploring faith through religion felt natural to me. I drew the ideas for my pieces mostly through what I was currently experiencing and feeling. Being so isolated gave me a lot of time to reflect on how to represent faith. There were many ups and downs throughout making my portfolio. Near the end, I was feeling immensely angry, which manifested in pieces like Judith Beheading Holofernes and Anything? which delved into faithlessness, rather than faith itself. I wanted to experiment with different mediums, like oil in With Prayer Book, and decollage in The Moles and String Theory. This year, I really missed being able to make art in the classroom with my peers. I hope my portfolio not only represents my inquiry question, but also the lonely conditions of the pandemic in which it was created.