Self-portrait as Helping Hand drawing
Working with an electric palette of neons, pastels, and bold primaries, Rachel incorporates familiar imagery—helping hands, smiley faces, ghosts, emoji, clouds, rainbows—into uncanny dream scenes that feel simultaneously playful and unsettling.
This body of mixed-media paintings and drawings explores the territory between innocence and anxiety, drawing visual influence from children's art while probing deeper emotional territories of dread, fear, and intrusive thoughts.
Blurring the line between the earthly and supernatural realms, each piece invites viewers to reconnect with the uninhibited expression of childhood while confronting the more complex emotional landscapes of adult life in late capitalism.
Materials: Pencil and ink on paper
Measurements: 11”x14”
Working with an electric palette of neons, pastels, and bold primaries, Rachel incorporates familiar imagery—helping hands, smiley faces, ghosts, emoji, clouds, rainbows—into uncanny dream scenes that feel simultaneously playful and unsettling.
This body of mixed-media paintings and drawings explores the territory between innocence and anxiety, drawing visual influence from children's art while probing deeper emotional territories of dread, fear, and intrusive thoughts.
Blurring the line between the earthly and supernatural realms, each piece invites viewers to reconnect with the uninhibited expression of childhood while confronting the more complex emotional landscapes of adult life in late capitalism.
Materials: Pencil and ink on paper
Measurements: 11”x14”
Working with an electric palette of neons, pastels, and bold primaries, Rachel incorporates familiar imagery—helping hands, smiley faces, ghosts, emoji, clouds, rainbows—into uncanny dream scenes that feel simultaneously playful and unsettling.
This body of mixed-media paintings and drawings explores the territory between innocence and anxiety, drawing visual influence from children's art while probing deeper emotional territories of dread, fear, and intrusive thoughts.
Blurring the line between the earthly and supernatural realms, each piece invites viewers to reconnect with the uninhibited expression of childhood while confronting the more complex emotional landscapes of adult life in late capitalism.
Materials: Pencil and ink on paper
Measurements: 11”x14”
Rachel Jones is a painter, haircutter, and caregiver living in Portland, Oregon. Her recent work explores, with disquieting acuity, the concepts of “people pleasing” and “putting on a happy face.”